ban: Meaning and Definition of

ban

1. to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict: to ban nuclear weapons; The dictator banned all newspapers and books that criticized his regime.
1. to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon.
2. to curse; execrate.

1. the act of prohibiting by law; interdiction.
2. informal denunciation or prohibition, as by public opinion: society's ban on racial discrimination.
1. a proclamation.
2. a public condemnation.
4. a formal condemnation; excommunication.
5. a malediction; curse.

ban

1. a public proclamation or edict.
2. banns.
3. (in the feudal system)
1. the summoning of the sovereign's vassals for military service.
2. the body of vassals summoned.

ban

1. (formerly) the governor of Croatia and Slavonia.
2. a provincial governor of the southern marches of Hungary.

ban

1. a Rumanian coin, the 100th part of a leu.