ALL meanings of ban
ban
B b - verb ban To ban something means to state officially that it must not be done, shown, or used. 3
- countable noun ban A ban is an official ruling that something must not be done, shown, or used. 3
- verb ban If you are banned from doing something, you are officially prevented from doing it. 3
- verb ban to prohibit, esp officially, from action, display, entrance, sale, etc; forbid 3
- verb ban (formerly in South Africa) to place (a person suspected of illegal political activity) under a government order restricting his movement and his contact with other people 3
- verb ban to curse 3
- noun ban an official prohibition or interdiction 3
- noun ban an official proclamation or public notice, esp of prohibition 3
- noun ban a public proclamation or edict, esp of outlawry 3
- noun ban public censure or condemnation 3
- noun ban a curse; imprecation 3
- noun ban (in feudal England) the summoning of vassals to perform their military obligations 3
- noun ban a monetary unit of Romania and Moldova worth one hundredth of a leu 3
- verb transitive ban to prohibit, as by official order, from doing, using, appearing, happening, etc.; forbid; censor 3
- verb transitive ban to curse; condemn 3
- noun ban in medieval times, a proclamation, esp. an official calling of vassals to arms 3
- noun ban an excommunication or condemnation by church authorities 3
- noun ban a curse 3
- noun ban an official order forbidding something; prohibition 3
- noun ban strong public disapproval or condemnation intended to prevent something 3
- noun ban a sentence or decree of outlawry 3
- noun ban a monetary unit of Romania, equal to 1⁄100 of a leu 3
- noun ban Officially or legally prohibit. 1
- noun ban prohibition 1
- noun ban exclusion from a place 1
- transitive verb ban prohibit 1
- transitive verb ban expel, exclude 1
- noun ban public edict 1
- verb with object ban to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict: to ban nuclear weapons; The dictator banned all newspapers and books that criticized his regime. 1
- verb with object ban Archaic. to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon. to curse; execrate. 1
- noun ban (formerly) the governor of Croatia and Slavonia. 1
- noun ban History/Historical. a provincial governor of the southern marches of Hungary. 1
- noun plural ban a Romanian coin, the 100th part of a leu. 1
- noun ban prohibition. 0
- noun ban A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms. 0
- noun ban 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. 0
- noun ban (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A curse or anathema. 0
- noun ban A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes. 0
- noun ban A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian leu. 0
- noun ban A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldovan leu. 0
- noun ban A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit. 0
- noun ban A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century. 0
- verb ban (Transitive Verb) OBS To summon; to call out. 0
- verb ban (Transitive Verb) To anathematise; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban. 0
- verb ban (Transitive Verb) To curse; to execrate. 0
- verb ban (Transitive Verb) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation. 0
- verb ban (Transitive Verb) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions. 0