Definitions for Ban

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IPA: /bæn/

Ban is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in Ban (abn).

Definitions for Ban

noun

1. the act of prohibiting by law; interdiction.
2. informal denunciation or prohibition, as by public opinion:
3. Law. a proclamation. a public condemnation.
4. Ecclesiastical. a formal condemnation; excommunication.
5. a malediction; curse.
6. a public proclamation or edict.
7. bans, Ecclesiastical. banns.
8. the summoning of the sovereign's vassals for military service. the body of vassals summoned.
9. (formerly) the governor of Croatia and Slavonia.
10. History/Historical. a provincial governor of the southern marches of Hungary.
11. a Romanian coin, the 100th part of a leu.

verb (used with object)

1. to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict:
2. Archaic. to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon. to curse; execrate.

Origin of Ban

before 1000; Middle English bannen, Old English bannan to summon, proclaim; cognate with Old Norse banna to curse (probably influencing some senses of ME word), Old High German bannan; akin t

Examples for Ban

A ban on the ringing of church bells, lifted in 1941, was reimposed.

We spent 2014 asking whether or not we should ban fraternities.

But in 1969, a longstanding practice was challenged—its ban on women.

But the Rabbis shook their heads and laid the ban upon him and his disciples.

But after Rolling Stone's rape story debacle, how much momentum does the call to ban fraternities have left?

The United Nations was prompted to impose a ban on selling mainframe computers or laptops to North Korea.

Helena de' Franchi gave the news of the ban to Giuseppe de' Franchi.

How could he exist with the knowledge that he was under the ban of the gods?

He has placed your city of Coimbra under a ban of excommunication.

Then, bleeding, he sat on the ground, and heard the ban solemnly removed.