Usually means: Generally accepted as officially authoritative.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word canonical:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. canonical: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. canonical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. canonical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. canonical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. canonical: Vocabulary.com
  6. Canonical, canonical: Wordnik
  7. canonical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. canonical: Wiktionary
  9. canonical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. canonical (canonic): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. canonical: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Canonical, canonical: Dictionary.com
  13. Canonical (company), Canonical (disambiguation), Canonical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. canonical: Rhymezone
  15. canonical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. canonical: Free Dictionary
  17. canonical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. canonical: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. Canonical: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. canonical: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. canonical: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Canonical: Unicode Glossary
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. canonical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Canonical: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Canonical: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. canonical: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. canonical: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See canonically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.
adjective:  According to recognised or orthodox rules.
adjective:  Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.
adjective:  Prototypical.
adjective:  (religion) In conformity with canon law.
adjective:  (music) In the form of a canon.
adjective:  (religion) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter
adjective:  (mathematics, computing) In canonical form.
adjective:  (mathematics) Distinguished among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on any arbitrary choices.
adjective:  (fandom slang) Part of canon (“the main continuity of a fictional universe”).
noun:  (plural only) The formal robes of a priest.
noun:  (Internet) A URL presented in canonical form.

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