ban

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To officially forbid something, especially by law or rule.

   The city has banned smoking in all public parks.

2. 2
   noun

   An official order that forbids something.

   There is a ban on using mobile phones during the exam.

3. 3
   verb

   To stop someone from taking part in something or entering a place.

   He was banned from the club for fighting.

Inherited from Middle English bannen (“to summon; to banish; to curse”), partly from Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim, call out”), from Proto-West Germanic *bannan; and partly from Old Norse banna (“to prohibit; to curse”), both from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, to order; to summon; to ban; to curse, forbid”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-new-ti ~ bʰh₂-n̥w-énti, innovative nasal-infixed zero-grade athematic present of *bʰeh₂- (“to say”). Cognate with Dutch bannen (“to ban, exile, discard”), German bannen (“to exile, to exorcise, captivate, excommunicate”), Swedish…

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