ban in Kashmiri कॉशुर
ban in Marathi मराठी
ban in Sindhi سنڌي
ban in English
- ban⇄ban (1), verb, banned,banning,noun.
- ban⇄ban (2), noun.
1. a public proclamation or edict.
2. in feudal times:
a. the summoning of the (French) king's vassals for war.
b. the whole body of vassals thus assembled, or liable to be summoned. - ban⇄ban (3), noun.
(formerly) the governor of certain military districts of Hungary, Slavonia, and Croatia. - ban⇄ban (4), noun, pl.bani.
a Romanian copper coin, worth 1/100 of a leu. - ban⇄noun 1. the forbidding of an act or speech by authority.
Ex. The city has a ban on parking cars in this busy street. Opinions which are under the ban of society (John Stuart Mill).
(SYN) taboo, prohibition.
2. (Archaic.) a solemn curs - ban⇄v.t. 1. to forbid by law or authority; prohibit.
Ex. Swimming is banned in this lake.
(SYN) interdict, proscribe.
2. to place a ban on; pronounce a curse on.
(SYN) curse.
3. (Archaic.) to place an ecclesiastical curse up