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Ban

noun

1.

A decree that prohibits something. Synonyms: prohibition, proscription.

2.

100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova.

3.

100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania.

4.

An official prohibition or edict against something. Synonyms: banning, forbiddance, forbidding.

5.

A bachelor's degree in nursing. Synonym: Bachelor of Arts in Nursing.

verb

(past & past part. banned; pres. part. banning)

1.

Forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper). Synonym: censor.

2.

Prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure.

3.

Ban from a place of residence, as for punishment. Synonym: banish.

4.

Expel from a community or group. Synonyms: banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun.

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"Ban" Quotes from Famous Books

... earth. There is hardly an undertaking, however slight, that can be begun without first consulting these wretched birds. Yet it is hardly to be wondered at, that all tribes should hold the birds to be little prophets of the jungle, dashing across man's path, at critical moments, to bless or to ban. In the deep jungle, which at high noon is as silent as "sunless retreats of the ocean," gay-plumaged birds are not sitting on every bough singing plaintive, melodious notes; such lovely pictures exist solely in the mind of the poet or of him who has never visited ...

— Folk-lore in Borneo - A Sketch • William Henry Furness

... needed no more said thereof; and that if the men of Austin and we differed it was not the part of Christian men to make the difference wider, even as Owen and Aldhelm were wont to say. And at that he raved, and threatened to lay the heaviest ban of the Church on Owen, and on all who held with him, and so he was taken from my presence, and I have seen him no more. But he ...

— A Prince of Cornwall - A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex • Charles W. Whistler

... aristocrat would have exempted agriculture from the ban of labour;[170] and, if the man of free birth could still have toiled productively on his holding, his contempt for the rabble which supplied the wants of his richer fellow-citizens in the towns would have been justified on material, if not on moral, ...

— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge

... which the Battalion's steps were turned was Arras. Early in May the French came to relieve the 61st Division at St. Quentin. It was said, perhaps with little truth, that the ban which forbade our guns to shell that town in such manner as, from a purely military standpoint, it deserved, induced this re-arrangement of the front. Certainly the French had tried in April, before the German retreat ...

— The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry • G. K. Rose

... ocus Pangur bAN cechtar nathar fria saindAN bith a menma sam fri SEILGG mu menma ...

— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox

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