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Hindi Word कानून Meaning in English - Canon - कानून अंग्रेज़ी में अर्थ

कानून Meaning in English is Canon, which is also written as 'Kānūn' in Roman.

Definitions of Canon

n. A law or rule.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.

n. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

n. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

n. 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.

n. The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.

n. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.

n. See Carom.

Origin of Canon Old English: from Latin, from Greek kanōn ‘rule’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French canon.