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Definition ban

Etymology 1

From Middle English bannen (“to summon; to bannish; to curse”), partly from Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim, call out”) and partly from Old Norse banna (“to prohibit; to curse”), both from Proto-Germanic *bannan? (“to proclaim, to order; to summon; to ban; to curse, forbid”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?h?-new-ti ~ b?h?-n?w-énti, innovative nasal-infixed zero-grade athematic present of *b?eh?- (“to say”). Cognate with Dutch bannen (“to ban, exile, discard”), German bannen (“to exile, to exorcise, captivate, excommunicate”), Swedish banna (“to ban, scold”), Vedic Sanskrit ???? (bhánati), Armenian ??? (ban) and perhaps Albanian banoj (“to reside, dwell”). See also banal, abandon.

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.
  4. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
  5. (transitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
Noun

ban (plural bans)

  1. Prohibition.
  2. A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
  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.
  4. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
  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.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Romanian ban of uncertain origin, perhaps from Serbo-Croatian bân.

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.

Etymology 3

From Banburismus; coined by Alan Turing.

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.

Etymology 4

From South Slavic (compare Serbo-Croatian b?n), from Proto-Slavic *ban?; see there for more.

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.

Results 215 Words with the letters BAN

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6 letter words with the letters BAN 
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5 letter words with the letters BAN 
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BANAL 10
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4 letter words with the letters BAN 
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BANE 8
BANG 10
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BANK 12
BANS 8
BARN 8
BEAN 8
BRAN 8
BUNA 9
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3 letter words with the letters BAN 
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NAB 7
2 letter words with the letters BAN 
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AN 3
BA 5
NA 3

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