Ban

Quick meaning: Ban is a verb meaning (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.

Meaning

(transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
2. (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
3. (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
4. (ambitransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
5. A prohibition.
6. A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
7. The gathering of the (French) king’s vassals for war; the whole body of vassals assembled this way, or liable to be summoned; originally the same as arriere-ban, but distinct since the 16th century, following French usage—see arriere-ban.

Example Sentences

Bare feet are banned in this establishment.

To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned

That sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence, Much more to taste it under ban to touch

They will curse and ban[…]even into the deep pit of hell, all that gainsay their appetite.

Word Forms

• bans
• banning
• banned
• bani

Synonyms for ban

Depending on context, synonyms include dit, hartley, forbid, prohibit, disallow, forbidding.

Antonyms for ban

Common opposites include allow, permit.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prohibition, interdiction, forbiddance, proscription, ostracize, forbidding.

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