ban

About 6.41 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. symbol ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Balinese.
2. verb To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.

   Bare feet are banned in this establishment.

3. verb To summon; to call out.
4. verb To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
5. verb To curse; to execrate.
6. verb To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
7. noun A prohibition.
8. noun A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.

Similar words

prohibition interdiction forbiddance proscription ostracize forbidding blackball cast out banish shun

Often followed by

on of the treaty was and against in is

Word family

bani banned banning bans