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 Definitions of ban  [ˈbɑ ni]  

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Definition of 'ban' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.t.) ban
to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict:
to ban nuclear weapons.

2.  ban
Archaic.

3.  ban
to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon.

4.  ban
to curse; execrate.

5. (n.) ban
the act of prohibiting by law; interdiction.

6.  ban
informal denunciation or prohibition, as by public opinion.

7.  ban
a formal ecclesiastical condemnation or excommunication.

8.  ban
a malediction; curse.

9. (n.) ban
the summoning of the sovereign's vassals for military service.

10.  ban
the body of vassals summoned.

11. (n.) ban
a monetary unit of Romania, equal to

Etymology:  (1960–65; < Romanian)

Definition of 'ban' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) prohibition, ban, proscription
a decree that prohibits something

2. (noun) ban
100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova

3. (noun) ban
100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania

4. (noun) ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding
an official prohibition or edict against something

5. (verb) Bachelor of Arts in Nursing, BAN
a bachelor's degree in nursing

6. (verb) ban, censor
forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

7. (verb) ban
prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure
"Smoking is banned in this building"

8. (verb) banish, ban
ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

9. (verb) banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball
expel from a community or group


Definition of 'ban' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) ban
a rule forbidding sth
a ban on smoking

2. (verb) ban
to officially forbid; = prohibit
to ban the use of guns; He is banned from traveling abroad.


Definition of 'ban' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) ban
a public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation

2. (noun) ban
a calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army

3. (noun) ban
notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense)

4. (noun) ban
an interdiction, prohibition, or proscription

5. (noun) ban
a curse or anathema

6. (noun) ban
a pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes

7. (noun) ban
an ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia

8. (verb) ban
to curse; to invoke evil upon

9. (verb) ban
to forbid; to interdict

10. (verb) ban
to curse; to swear


Translation of 'ban' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: an order that a certain thing may not be done
a ban on smoking.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: verbod Arabic flag Arabic: منْع Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: забрана
Brazilian flag Brazilian: proibição Czech flag Czech: zákaz German flag German: das Verbot
Danish flag Danish: forbud; banlysning Greek flag Greek: απαγόρευση Spanish flag Spanish: prohibición, veda
Estonian flag Estonian: keeld Farsi flag Farsi: ممنوعیت؛ منع Finnish flag Finnish: kielto
French flag French: interdiction Hebrew flag Hebrew: לְאֶסוֹר Hindi flag Hindi: प्रतिबंध
Croatian flag Croatian: zabrana Hungarian flag Hungarian: megtiltás Indonesian flag Indonesian: larangan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: bann Italian flag Italian: bando, proibizione Japanese flag Japanese: 禁止
Korean flag Korean: 금지 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: (už)draudimas Latvian flag Latvian: aizliegums
Malay flag Malay: pengharaman Dutch flag Dutch: verbod Norwegian flag Norwegian: forbud, bann(lysing)
Polish flag Polish: zakaz Persian flag Persian: ممنوعیت؛ منع Pashto flag Pashto: منع، مو قوف، بنديز، غندنه
Portuguese flag Portuguese: proibição Romanian flag Romanian: interdicţie Russian flag Russian: запрет
Slovak flag Slovak: zákaz Slovenian flag Slovenian: prepoved Serbian flag Serbian: zabrana
Swedish flag Swedish: förbud Thai flag Thai: คำสั่งห้าม Turkish flag Turkish: yasak
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 禁令 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: заборона Urdu flag Urdu: پابندی لگانا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: lệnh cấm Chinese flag Chinese: 禁令

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