Definition of ban Ban
/bæˈn/ - [ban] - ban
We found 38 definitions of ban from 8 different sources.
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What does ban mean?
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NounPlural: bans |
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| ban - an official prohibition or edict against something | ||
| banning, forbiddance, forbidding | ||
| prohibition the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance" | ||
| ban - a decree that prohibits something | ||
| prohibition, proscription | ||
| decree, fiat, edict, rescript, order a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" | ||
| banning-order an order that bans something | ||
| cease and desist order, enjoining, enjoinment, injunction (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order" | ||
| ban - a bachelor's degree in nursing | ||
| Bachelor of Arts in Nursing, BAN | ||
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| ban - forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper) | ||
| censor | ||
| criminalise, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw, criminalize declare illegal; outlaw; "Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S." | ||
| medium an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication | ||
| embargo prevent commerce; "The U.S. embargoes Libya" | ||
| ban - prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure; "Smoking is banned in this building" | ||
| disallow, nix, prohibit, proscribe, forbid, interdict, veto command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" | ||
| ban - expel from a community or group | ||
| banish, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball | ||
| kick out, expel, throw out force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country" | ||
| ban - ban from a place of residence, as for punishment | ||
| banish | ||
| kick out, expel, throw out force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country" | ||
| rusticate lend a rustic character to; "rusticate the house in the country" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- ban (Noun)
prohibition. - ban (Noun)
A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms. - ban (Noun)
The gathering of the French king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c. , French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word. - ban (Noun)
A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian leu. - ban (Noun)
A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldavian леу. - ban (Noun)
A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit. - ban (Noun)
A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century. - ban (Verb)
To summon; call out . - ban (Verb)
To anathematise; pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; place under a ban. - ban (Verb)
To curse; execrate. - ban (Verb)
To prohibit; interdict; proscribe; forbid or block from participation. - ban (Verb)
To curse; utter curses or maledictions.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- ban (n.)
A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation. - ban (n.)
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. - ban (n.)
Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense). - ban (n.)
An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription. - ban (n.)
A curse or anathema. - ban (n.)
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. - ban (v. t.)
To curse; to invoke evil upon. - ban (v. t.)
To forbid; to interdict. - ban (v. i.)
To curse; to swear. - ban (n.)
An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. -
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The prohibition of activities within a certain political territory. -
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To block from participation.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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ban, n. a proclamation: sentence of banishment: outlawry: anathematisation: a denunciation: a curse.—v.t. (arch.) to curse: (prov.) to chide or rail upon: to anathematise: to proscribe. [A.S. bannan, to summon; the noun bann does not appear in A.S. (which has gebann), but is a common Teut. word, as in Old High Ger. and Scand. bann. The O. Fr. ban and Low L. bannum are of the same origin.] -
ban
ban, n. the governor of a Banat, an old name for the military divisions on the eastern boundaries of the Hungarian kingdom.—ns. Banate, Bannat. [Pers. bān, lord.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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(Fr.). A sort of proclamation made at the head of a body of troops, or in the several quarters or cantonments of an army, by sound of trumpet or beat of drum, either for observing martial discipline, or for declaring a new officer, or punishing a soldier, or the like. At present such kind of proclamations are given out in the written orders of the day. -
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In the former days of France, when the feudal barons, who held their estates and honors from the king, were summoned to attend him in time of war, they were called the ban, or the levy first called out; while the tenants, subordinate to these barons, formed the Arrière ban, or secondary levy.
Wikipedia 
- A ban is an action used to stop people from doing something, either bad or dangerous. Ban can also be made on products. For example, Singapore, a country, bans chewing gum. Ban may sometimes be made on the Internet, where an administrator with higher powers than other users can stop trolls or vandals from causing harm to others.
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