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   ban

   /ban/

   verb

   • 1. officially or legally prohibit (something): "parking is banned around the harbour in summer" Similar prohibitforbidvetoproscribedisallowoutlawmake illegalembargoplace an embargo onbardebarblockstopput a stop toput an end tosuppressinterdictenjoinrestrainOpposite permit
   • ▪ officially prevent (someone) from doing something: "her son was banned for life from the Centre" Similar excludebanishexpelejectevictdrive outforce outoustremoveget rid ofdrum outthrust outpush outturn outprohibit from enteringinformal:boot outkick outgive someone the bootturf outOpposite admit

   noun

   • 1. an official or legal prohibition: "a proposed ban on cigarette advertising" Similar prohibitionvetoproscriptionembargobarsuppressionstoppageinterdictinterdictionmoratoriuminjunctionOpposite permission
   • ▪ an official exclusion of a person from an organization, country, or activity: "a ban on dangerous jet-ski riders" Similar exclusionbanishmentexpulsionejectionevictionremovalOpposite admission
   • ▪ a sentence of outlawry: historical "the Presbyterians were under the ban of the law"
   • 2. a curse: archaic "the land might be smitten by the ban which once fell upon the Canaanites"

   Word Origin Old Englishbannan ‘summon by a public proclamation’, of Germanic origin, reinforced by Old Norse banna ‘curse, prohibit’; the noun is partly from Old French ban ‘proclamation, summons, banishment’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. bannable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 5

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   The verb to ban means to forbid something from being or happening. The word can also be used as a noun. A school board might put a ban on all books that refer to Jefferson's mistress if they don't want anyone reading about her.

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