ban

Verb

ban (third-person singular simple present bans, present participle banning, simple past and past participle banned)

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.
   • c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, a sermon:

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

4. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
   • 1816, Lord Byron, The Prisoner of Chillon:

     To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned

   • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in The Guardian:

     Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.

   • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.

   • 2024 September 23, Soumya Karlamangla, “California Bans All Plastic Bags After Its First Effort Backfired”, in The New York Times‎:

     Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Sunday banning the sale at grocery checkouts of all plastic bags, regardless of thickness.

   Bare feet are banned in this establishment.

5. (transitive, intransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     :“I seldom ban, sir,” said he to the man; “but if you play any of your hound's-foot tricks, and leave puir Berwick before he's sorted, to rin after spuilzie, deil be wi' me if I do not give your craig a thraw”

Noun

ban (plural bans)

1. Prohibition.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

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

   • 2024 September 23, Soumya Karlamangla, “California Bans All Plastic Bags After Its First Effort Backfired”, in The New York Times‎:

     California has been on the forefront of plastic bag bans. In 2007, Mr. Newsom, as mayor of San Francisco, signed a law that made the city the first in the nation to ban plastic bags in grocery stores.

2. A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
   • 1641, John Rastell, translated by William Rastell, Termes de la Lay, 37b:

     Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any publike notice.

3. 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.
   • 1591, published 1847, Henry Unton, Correspondence of Sir Henry Unton, knt., Ambassador from Queen Elizabeth to Henry IV. King of France, in the years MDXCI. and MDXCII., page 54:

     […] he hath sente abroade to assemble his van and arriere van; wherby, and with the reste of his forces, he prepareth him selfe to enter this countrey; […]

   • 1671, John Crowne, Juliana, or, The princess of Poland a tragicomedy, as it is acted at His Royal Highness the Duke of York's theatre, Act I, page 8:

     […] all the Ban and the Arrierban, are met arm’d in the field, to choose a King […]

   • 1683, William Temple, chapter I, in Memoirs of what past in Christendom, from the War begun 1672, to the Peace concluded 1679:

     France was at such a Pinch for Men, […] that they call’d their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long disus’ed, and in a Manner antiquated.

   • 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, chapter II, part II:

     The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military service in subsequent ages; but with more of ostentation than real efficiency.

   • 1874, Charles Boutell, chapter 7, in Arms And Armour In Antiquity And The Middle Ages, page 98:

     The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled “convoking the ban”—“convoquer le ban.”

4. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected

5. 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.

See also

• banns

Noun

ban (plural bani)

1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
2. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.

Noun

ban (plural bans)

1. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.

Noun

ban (plural bans)

1. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.

Noun

ban m (plural bans)

1. ban (a public proclamation or edict)

Noun

ban m (plural bans)

1. ban (a title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century)

Synonyms

• (to reject): foul

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ban
• Rhymes: -ɑn

Noun

ban m (plural bannen)

1. excommunication, denunciation, shunning
2. anathema which is cast upon one who is excommunicated
3. magic spell
4. (historical) legal or feudal domain
5. (historical) public declaration
6. (archaic) exile

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛn/
• Hyphenation: ban
• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Homophone: ben

Noun

ban m (plural bans)

1. a revocation of permission to access or participate

   Synonym: toegangsverbod

   De forumgebruiker die zich heeft misdragen heeft een ban gekregen.

   The forum user that misbehaved has been given a ban.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑn/

Verb

ban

1. inflection of bannen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛn/

Verb

ban

1. inflection of bannen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Noun

ban m (plural bans)

1. (dated) public declaration
2. (dated) announcement of a marriage; banns
3. (East of France, Belgium) territory

Noun

ban m (plural bans)

1. ban (nobleman)

Synonyms

• ba
• bay

Alternative forms

• band (1901–1947, colloquial)

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈban/ [ˈban]
    • Rhymes: -an
  • IPA^(key): (especially of sense 5) /ˈbɛn/ [ˈbɛn]
    • Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: ban

Noun

ban (plural ban-ban)

1. tyre, tire

   Synonym: tayar (Standard Malay)

2. tape

   Synonym: pita

3. belt

   Synonyms: ikat pinggang, sabuk

4. (physics) band (a part of the electromagnetic spectrum)

   Synonym: pita

5. band (group of musicians)

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈban/ [ˈban]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: ban

Noun

ban (plural ban-ban)

1. (uncommon) road, way, path

   Synonyms: jalan, jalur

2. (uncommon) a track, lane

   Synonym: lintasan

3. (sports, ball games) court, field (place for playing sports or games, in particular non-team ball games)

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛn/ [ˈbɛn]
• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: ban

Noun

ban

1. (Internet slang) a ban

   Synonym: blok

Verb

ban

1. (Internet slang) to ban

   Synonym: blokir

Declension

Derived terms

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Conjugation

Noun

ban

1. Alternative form of bane

Noun

ban

1. Alternative form of bon

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Derived terms

• bānhūs
• bānlēas
• hryċġbān
• sċinbān

Descendants

• Middle English: bon, ban, bane, bone, boon
  • English: bone
  • Geordie English: byen
  • Scots: bane, bain, bean, been
  • Yola: bane

Alternative forms

• baán

Alternative forms

• band

Noun

ban m animal

1. ban (subdivision of currency)

Noun

ban m animal

1. (Internet) ban

Noun

ban m pers

1. ban (title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century)

See also

• banimento