Canon
Places
- Canon, Georgia, a city in the United States
- Cañon City, Colorado, United States
- Cañon Fiord, on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada
- Canons Park, London, UK
- Mézidon-Canon, a commune in Normandy, France
Arts, entertainment, and media
Literature
- The Canon (Natalie Angier book), a 2007 science book
- The Canon of Medicine, a medical text written by Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
- The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, a 1994 book by Harold Bloom
Collections or lists
- Canon of Dutch History, 50 topics to be taught in schools in the Netherlands
- Canon of Dutch Literature, a list of the most important Dutch literary works
- Canon of Eclipses, an 1887 compilation of eclipses by Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer
- Canon of Kings, a dated list of kings used by ancient astronomers as a convenient means to date astronomical phenomena
- Danish Culture Canon, a list of 108 works of cultural excellence
- Western canon, the books, music, and art that have been the most influential in shaping Western culture
Music
- Canon (album), 2007, by Ani DiFranco
- Canon (music), a type of contrapuntal composition
- "Canon", a 2011 song by Justice
- "Pachelbel's Canon", a German Baroque chamber work
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Canon (basic principle), a rule or a body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy
- Canon (fiction), the conceptual material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe's fan base
- Canon (film), a 1964 Canadian animated short
- Canon (game), an online browser-based strategy war game
- Canon (manga), by Nikki
- Aesthetic canon, a rule for the proportions of a human figure
- The Canon (podcast), concerning film
Brands and enterprises
- Canon Inc., a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation
- Château Canon (disambiguation), any of a number of wineries
- UBM Canon, a media company headquartered in Los Angeles
Religion
Religious law
- Canon law, a rule of conduct or belief prescribed by various churches
- Canon law (Catholic Church)
- Penitential canons, the Catholic canon laws regarding certain penances to be done for certain sins
- Canon law, religious laws, particularly in Christian contexts
- Canonization, the formal process of recognizing a Christian saint
- Canon law (Catholic Church)
- Canon of construction, a rule or generally accepted principle of statutory interpretation
Scriptures
- Canon, various formally approved collections of religious text, including:
- Biblical canon, among various Jewish and Christian communities
- Chinese Buddhist canon, used in East Asia
- Jewish Bible canon, another name for the Tanakh
- Pāli Canon, used in the Therevada Buddhist tradition
- Daozang, the Taoist canon, about 1400 texts collected around the 4th century
- Tibetan Buddhist canon, a loosely defined list used in the Vajrayana tradition
Other uses in religion
- Canon (hymnography), a kind of hymn in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
- Canon (priest), a title of certain Christian priests
- Canon of the Mass, the Eucharistic Prayer of the Roman Rite
- Canons regular, priests living in community under a rule
Other uses
- Canon (rapper) (born 1989)
- Cañon or canyon, a deep valley between cliffs
- Canon, in bellfounding, one or more hanging loops cast integrally with the crown
- Canon Yaoundé, a Cameroonian association football club
See also
- Canaan, a region in the Ancient Near East
- Cannon (disambiguation)
- Canonical (disambiguation)
- Canonization (disambiguation)
- Canyon (disambiguation)
- Kanon (disambiguation)
- Standard (disambiguation)
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