canon
canon is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A law or rule. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A law or rule.
- noun. A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
- noun. The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.
- noun. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- noun. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
- noun. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
- noun. A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
- noun. The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
- noun. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
- noun. See Carom.
- noun. a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired
- noun. a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church
- noun. a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy
"the neoclassical canon"
"canons of polite society"
- noun. a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts
- noun. a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
- noun. a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in canon:
Common word forms
canons, canones, canonise, canonize
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