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.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
4. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Byron to this entry?)
   • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in 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.

   Bare feet are banned in this establishment.

5. (transitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.

Noun

ban (plural bans)

1. prohibition
   • Milton

     under ban to touch

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.

   He has sent abroad to assemble his ban and arriere ban.

   The Ban and the Arrierban are met armed in the field to choose a king.

   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.

   The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military services.

   The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled ‘convoking the ban.

4. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
   • Shakespeare

     Hecate's ban

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 bannen)

1. excommunication, denunciation
2. anathema which is cast upon one who is excommunicated
3. magic spell
4. (archaic) exile

Verb

ban

1. first-person singular present indicative of bannen
2. imperative of bannen

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.

Verb

ban

1. to revoke permission to access or participate

   Synonyms: eruit trappen, eruit gooien, de toegang verbieden

   De spammende gebruikers zullen we bannen.

   We will ban the spamming users.

Usage notes

Mostly common within internet communities. Although a ban never needs to be paid for, ban may be used with gratis (gratis ban) similar to English free ban to express gratitude for giving the ban.

Noun

ban m (plural bans)

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

Noun

ban m (plural bans)

1. ban (nobleman)

Synonyms

• ban
• bay

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• bānlēas
• hryċġbān
• sċinbān

Descendants

• Middle English: ban, bon
  • Scots: bane, bean, bain
  • English: bone

Noun

ban m anim

1. ban (a subdivision of currency)

Noun

ban m anim

1. ban (on the Internet)

Noun

ban m pers

1. ban (title)

Usage notes

Usually used in the plural form, bani

Declension

See also

• bancnotă (“paper money, bank note”)
• monedă

Declension

Noun

ban

1. (historical) branch of administration in the feudal court (of which there are two types: the civil administrators and the martial office holders)
2. group (of people doing the same work); band; board; squad; committee
3. shift; work period
4. (only in compounds) time period; section of the day

   Synonym: buổi

5. (dated) (college-level) subject; (academic) department

Noun

(classifier cây, hoa) ban

1. orchid tree (Bauhinia variegata)

Noun

ban

1. (medicine) rash

Noun

ban

1. (Central Vietnam) ball

Noun

ban

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of pan

Verb

ban

1. (archaic) to confer on; to bestow
2. (archaic) to announce; to herald; to proclaim

Declension

Derived terms

• banön

Mutation