Ban Definition

băn
bani, banned, banning, bans
verb
banned, banning, bans
To prohibit (an action) or forbid the use of (something), especially by official decree.
Banned smoking in theaters; banned pesticides in parks.
American Heritage
To prohibit, as by official order, from doing, using, appearing, happening, etc.; forbid; censor.
To ban fraternities, to ban a book.
Webster's New World
To refuse to allow (someone) to do something, go somewhere, or be a participant; exclude.
A coach who was banned from the sidelines for two games; a gambler who was banned from the club.
American Heritage
To curse; condemn.
Webster's New World
Under the former system of apartheid, to deprive (a person suspected of illegal activity) of the right of free movement and association with others.
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noun
bans
An excommunication or condemnation by church officials.
American Heritage
In medieval times, a proclamation, esp. an official calling of vassals to arms.
Webster's New World
A prohibition imposed by law or official decree.
American Heritage
An excommunication or condemnation by church authorities.
Webster's New World
Censure, condemnation, or disapproval expressed especially by public opinion.
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abbreviation
British Approved Name.
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Other Word Forms of Ban

Noun

Singular:
ban
Plural:
bani, bans

Origin of Ban

  • Romanian coin, coin of small worth perhaps of Germanic origin and akin to Old High German ban official proclamation, command (the original medieval Romanian coin being so called because coins were necessary to pay fines and feudal dues) and to Old English bannan to summon ban1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Romanian coin, coin of small worth perhaps of Germanic origin and akin to Old High German ban official proclamation, command (the original medieval Romanian coin being so called because coins were necessary to pay fines and feudal dues) and to Old English bannan to summon ban1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English bannen to summon, banish, curse from Old English bannan to summon, and from Old Norse banna to prohibit, curse bhā-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ban Sentence Examples

  • They may try to ban you from day trading given the current climate.

  • In Mexico and Peru they fell under the ban of the Inquisition.

  • That the encouragement of the Slav aspirations was soon deliberately adopted as a weapon against the Hungarian government was due, partly to the speedy predominance at Pest of Kossuth and the extreme party of which he was the mouthpiece, but mainly to the calculated policy of Baron Jellachich, who on the 14th of April was appointed ban of Croatia.

  • In 1339 Occam's treatises were put under a ban by the university of Paris, and in the following year Nominalism was solemnly condemned.

  • The Haud (only the northern part of which is British territory - the rest is Abyssinian) consists partly of thorn jungle, the haud of the Somali, partly of rolling grass plains, called ban, and partly of semi-desert country called aror.

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Words Starting With

BBABAN

Words Ending With

NANBAN

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Words Starting With B and Ending With N

Starts With B & Ends With NStarts With BA & Ends With NStarts With B & Ends With AN

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3 Letter Words3 Letter Words Starting With B3 Letter Words Ending With N