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).

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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

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