ban
Noun
- A monetary unit of Romania, equal to one hundredth of a leu.
- a decree that prohibits something
- 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova
- 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania
- an official prohibition or edict against something
- a bachelor's degree in nursing
- A prohibition.
- A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
- 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.
- A curse or anathema.
- 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.
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
- A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
- A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
Verb
Verb Forms: banned, banning, bans
- To officially prohibit, forbid, or exclude.
- forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
- prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure
- "Smoking is banned in this building"
- ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
- expel from a community or group
- To summon; to call out.
- To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
- To curse; to execrate.
- To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
- To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
Examples
- Bare feet are banned in this establishment.
- He played BAN for a meager score, wishing he had more than one ban to his name.
- I wish I could ban my opponent from using two-letter words.
Origin / Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bannen (“to summon; to banish; to curse”), partly from Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim, call out”), from Proto-West Germanic *bannan; and partly from Old Norse banna (“to prohibit; to curse”), both from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, to order; to summon; to ban; to curse, forbid”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-new-ti ~ bʰh₂-n̥w-énti, innovative nasal-infixed zero-grade athematic present of *bʰeh₂- (“to say”).
Cognate with Dutch bannen (“to ban, exile, discard”), German bannen (“to exile, to exorcise, captivate, excommunicate”), Swedish banna (“to ban, scold”), Vedic Sanskrit भनति (bhánati), Armenian բան (ban) and perhaps Albanian banoj (“to reside, dwell”). See also banal, abandon.
Synonyms
Bachelor of Arts in Nursing, banish, banning, blackball, cast out, censor, forbiddance, forbidding, ostracise, ostracize, prohibition, proscription, shun, disallow, dit, forbid, hartley, prohibit
Scrabble Score: 5
ban: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordban: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ban: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary