ban
verb
[ ban ]
• officially or legally prohibit (something).
• "parking is banned around the harbour in summer"
Similar:
prohibit,
forbid,
veto,
proscribe,
disallow,
outlaw,
make illegal,
embargo,
place an embargo on,
bar,
debar,
block,
stop,
put a stop to,
put an end to,
suppress,
interdict,
enjoin,
restrain,
ban
noun
• an official or legal prohibition.
• "a proposed ban on cigarette advertising"
Similar:
prohibition,
veto,
proscription,
embargo,
bar,
suppression,
stoppage,
interdict,
interdiction,
moratorium,
injunction,
• a curse.
• "the land might be smitten by the ban which once fell upon the Canaanites"
Origin:
Old English bannan ‘summon by a public proclamation’, of Germanic origin, reinforced by Old Norse banna ‘curse, prohibit’; the noun is partly from Old French ban ‘proclamation, summons, banishment’.
ban
noun
• a monetary unit of Romania, equal to one hundredth of a leu.
Origin:
Romanian.
