canon
noun
- ecclesiastical rank
- concept of continuity between different fictional works
- cleric; member of certain bodies subject to an ecclesiastical rule
- cultural canon in general
- a rule or a body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy
- structured hymn used in a number of Eastern Orthodox services
Wiktionary
adj
- Clipping of canonical.
“The franchise's book spinoff is usually not considered canon.”
name
Etymology: * As an English, Scottish, and Irish surname, variant of Cannon. * As a French topographical surname, from placenames derived from canne (“reed, cane, tube”). * As a Chaldean/Chaldean Neo-Aramaic surname, variant of Kanon, Kanoun, from [script needed] (Kānūn), the Classical Syriac name of the ninth and tenth months of the Assyrian calendar, from ܟܢܘܢ ܒ.
- A surname.
- The Canon of the Mass.
noun
Etymology: From Spanish cañón, spelling it without the diacritics.
- Obsolete spelling of canyon.
“[page 247:] the most wonderful depressions, gorges, canons, or valleys ever discovered. [page 249:] Some two miles on we come to where the three canons begin. [page 329:] the Canons of the Colorado River. This gave Moran his subject for a second painting, which he called the "Grand Chasm of the Colorado" [...]”
“Clarks Canon, […] very sandy, hilly, deep canons (or ravines), river valleys, and no trees or brush […]”