Ban
[bæn]
Definition
(noun.) an official prohibition or edict against something.
(noun.) 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania.
(noun.) 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova.
(verb.) prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure; 'Smoking is banned in this building'.
(verb.) forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper).
Typed by Carlyle--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
(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.
(n.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).
(n.) An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.
(n.) A curse or anathema.
(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.
(v. t.) To curse; to invoke evil upon.
(v. t.) To forbid; to interdict.
(v. i.) To curse; to swear.
(n.) An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.
Checked by Desmond
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Proclamation, edict.[2]. Curse, malediction, excommunication, denunciation, execration, anathema.
Edited by Carlos
Definition
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.
n. the governor of a Banat an old name for the military divisions on the eastern boundaries of the Hungarian kingdom.—ns. Banate Bannat.
Editor: Pedro
Examples
- To erect a ban doesn't stop the want. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If you go or come, eat or drink, bless or ban, 'Pax vobiscum' carries you through it all. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I, probably, should know nothing about their ban; and if I did, I should care nothing about it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There were faint sounds from the wood, but no disturbance, no possible disturbance, the world was under a strange ban, a new mystery had supervened. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In 1339 Occam's books were put under a ban and Nominalism solemnly condemned. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All other sexual expression would come under the ban of disapproval. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For modern languages may evidently be put to use, and hence fall under the ban. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To one who had named him slave, and, on any point, banned him from respect, he must now have peculiar feelings. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The Polish language was banned, and the Greek Orthodox church was substituted for the Roman Catholic as the State religion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Kennard, Robert Banning, Samuel Hambleton, Sr. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Waldo