Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BAN

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Definitions of BAN

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. 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.
5. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
6. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
7. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
8. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
9. (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
10. (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
11. (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
12. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
13. (ambitransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
14. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
15. Initialism of British Approved Name.
16. A surname.

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