ban

Meaning of ban

noun
  1. Prohibition.
  2. A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
    Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any public notice.
  3. 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.
    France was at such a Pinch..that they call'd their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long discussed, and in a manner antiquated.
  4. A curse or anathema.
  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.
verb
  1. To summon; to call out.
  2. To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
  3. To curse; to execrate.
  4. To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
    Bare feet are banned in this establishment.
  5. To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
noun
  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

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

noun

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

Information about ban

Hyphenation of ban

ban

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
  • ban is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

ban synonyms

Meaning prohibition:

prohibition, proscription

Meaning banning:

banning, forbiddance, forbidding

Meaning censor:

censor

Meaning banish:

banish, ostracize, shun, blackball

Meaning :

disallow, forbid, prohibit, dit

Translation of ban

Anagrams of ban

abn, nab

Words that rhyme with ban

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