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📖 Определения и значения для слова canon

📒 a Christian priest with special duties in a cathedral

📒 a generally accepted rule, standard or principle by which something is judged

  • the canons of good taste
  • market sovereignty, the central canon of Thatcherism

📒 a list of the books or other works that are generally accepted as the real work of a particular writer or as being important

  • the Shakespeare canon
  • ‘Wuthering Heights’ is a central book in the canon of English literature.

📒 a piece of music in which singers or instruments take it in turns to repeat the melody (= tune)

  • a canon for tenor and bass
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