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Pronunciation: /ban/

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Definition of ban

verb (bans, banning, banned)

[with object]
  • officially or legally prohibit (something):parking is banned around the harbour in summer
  • officially prevent (someone) from doing something:her son was banned for life from the Centre

noun

  • 1an official or legal prohibition:a proposed ban on cigarette advertising a three-year driving ban
  • an official exclusion of a person from an organization, country, or activity:a ban on dangerous jet-ski riders
  • historical a sentence of outlawry: the Presbyterians were under the ban of the law
  • 2 archaic a curse: the land might be smitten by the ban which once fell upon the Canaanites

Derivatives

bannable

adjective

Origin:

Old English bannan 'summon by a public proclamation', of Germanic origin, reinforced by Old Norse banna 'curse, prohibit'; the noun is partly from Old French ban 'proclamation, summons, banishment'

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