Meaning of "ban" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BAN

Old English bannan to proclaim; compare Old Norse banna to forbid, Old High German bannan to command.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF BAN

ban  [bæn]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BAN

Ban is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb ban in English.

WHAT DOES BAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ban

Ban may refer to: ▪ Ban, a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship ▪ The imperial ban, a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman Empire ▪ The king's ban, a royal command or prohibition in the medieval Holy Roman Empire ▪ Herem, usually translated as the Ban, a form of excommunication in Judaism ▪ Herem, a command to destroy in the Hebrew Bible ▪ Ban, a noble title which was used in south-eastern Europe ▪ Ban of Croatia ▪ Ban, a logarithmic unit of information or weight of evidence ▪ Ban, a king from Arthurian legend ▪ Ban, a brand name deodorant & antiperspirant ▪ Ban, a Frankish institution ▪ Ban, a coin, the 1/100 part of a Romanian leu or Moldovan leu ▪ Muban, or Ban for short, the lowest administrative subdivision of Thailand ▪ Another name for the paiban, a clapper used in Chinese music ▪ An alternate spelling for "bann" as in banns of marriage.

Definition of ban in the English dictionary

The first definition of ban in the dictionary is to prohibit, esp officially, from action, display, entrance, sale, etc; forbid. Other definition of ban is to place under a government order restricting his movement and his contact with other people. Ban is also to curse.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BAN

PRESENT

Present

I ban

you ban

he/she/it bans

we ban

you ban

they ban

Present continuous

I am banning

you are banning

he/she/it is banning

we are banning

you are banning

they are banning

Present perfect

I have banned

you have banned

he/she/it has banned

we have banned

you have banned

they have banned

Present perfect continuous

I have been banning

you have been banning

he/she/it has been banning

we have been banning

you have been banning

they have been banning

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I banned

you banned

he/she/it banned

we banned

you banned

they banned

Past continuous

I was banning

you were banning

he/she/it was banning

we were banning

you were banning

they were banning

Past perfect

I had banned

you had banned

he/she/it had banned

we had banned

you had banned

they had banned

Past perfect continuous

I had been banning

you had been banning

he/she/it had been banning

we had been banning

you had been banning

they had been banning

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will ban

you will ban

he/she/it will ban

we will ban

you will ban

they will ban

Future continuous

I will be banning

you will be banning

he/she/it will be banning

we will be banning

you will be banning

they will be banning

Future perfect

I will have banned

you will have banned

he/she/it will have banned

we will have banned

you will have banned

they will have banned

Future perfect continuous

I will have been banning

you will have been banning

he/she/it will have been banning

we will have been banning

you will have been banning

they will have been banning

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would ban

you would ban

he/she/it would ban

we would ban

you would ban

they would ban

Conditional continuous

I would be banning

you would be banning

he/she/it would be banning

we would be banning

you would be banning

they would be banning

Conditional perfect

I would have ban

you would have ban

he/she/it would have ban

we would have ban

you would have ban

they would have ban

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been banning

you would have been banning

he/she/it would have been banning

we would have been banning

you would have been banning

they would have been banning

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you ban
we let´s ban
you ban

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to ban

Past participle

banned

Present Participle

banning

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «BAN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ban» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of ban

banish · bar · black · blackball · block · boycott · censorship · criminalize · debar · disallow · disallowance · disqualification · disqualify · embargo · exclude · forbid · injunction · interdict · interdiction · outlaw · preclude · prevent · prohibit · prohibition · proscribe · proscription · rahui · restraining order · restrict · restriction · stoppage · suppress · suppression · taboo · veto

TRANSLATION OF BAN

Find out the translation of ban to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of ban from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ban» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 禁令
• Translator English - Spanish: prohibición
• English: ban
• Translator English - Hindi: प्रतिबंध
• Translator English - Arabic: حَظْر
• Translator English - Russian: запрет
• Translator English - Portuguese: proibição
• Translator English - Bengali: নিষেধাজ্ঞা
• Translator English - French: interdiction
• Translator English - Malay: Larangan
• Translator English - German: Verbot
• Translator English - Japanese: 禁止
• Translator English - Korean: 금지
• Translator English - Javanese: Ban
• Translator English - Vietnamese: lệnh cấm
• Translator English - Tamil: தடை
• Translator English - Marathi: बंदी
• Translator English - Turkish: yasak
• Translator English - Italian: bando
• Translator English - Polish: zakaz
• Translator English - Ukrainian: заборона
• Translator English - Romanian: interdicție
• Translator English - Greek: απαγόρευση
• Translator English - Afrikaans: verbied
• Translator English - Swedish: förbud
• Translator English - Norwegian: forbud

10 QUOTES WITH «BAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ban.

1

Sandy Adams

The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

2

James F. Amos

There's not really a ban on the KIA bracelet specifically. There are regulations for wearing the uniform and specifically jewelry, and Marines are not allowed to wear bracelets. This falls under that spectrum. Now, the KIA bracelet will be lumped into the same category as the POW/MIA bracelets, which are approved for wear.

3

Judy Biggert

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

4

Birdy

I've had to ban my mum from coming to see me play. She gets so nervous before any show. I've always got a few nerves but she's so much worse than me. You'd think she'd be able to handle that kind of situation. After all, she is a concert pianist.

5

Julie Bishop

Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.

6

Julie Bishop

My point is this, the Government made this decision to ban totally beef exports into Indonesia, even to compliant abattoirs and this will have enormous consequences for the beef cattle industry across Australia.

7

Julie Bishop

But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia.

8

Jim Bolger

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

9

Keegan Bradley

I was the first to win a major with a belly putter, and I've spent hours practicing that way, so I hope they don't ban anchoring.

10

Ken Calvert

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BAN»

Discover the use of ban in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ban and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

What Schools Ban and why

Looks at various areas of restriction in our public schools and considers the implications of those bans in the past, present, and future.

Robert Murray Thomas, 2008

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider's ...

This is a very valuable contribution to a greater understanding of the CTBT and the overall nuclear arms control picture.

Keith A. Hansen, 2006

Ban This Filth!: Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive

The launch of Mary Whitehouse's 'Clean Up TV' campaign (at Birmingham Town Hall in 1964) made this devoutly Christian Shropshire school-teacher a media star overnight. Over the next 37 years, her name became a byword for censoriousness.

Ben Thompson, 2012

Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban

The inside story of the diplomacy and negotiations that lead to the signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty.

Glenn Theodore Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb, 1983

Carpentry and Building in Late Imperial China: A Study of ...

The heart of the book is an annotated translation of the fifteenth-century carpenter's manual Lu Ban jing. Numerous illustrations further enhance the value of this book.

Klaas Ruitenbeek, 1996

Moving on: Creating Your House of Belonging with Simple ...

The perfect book about change -- how to accept it, how to flourish and how to move on afterward. Great for readers looking for help and advice about continuing on and flourishing after life-changing events.

Sarah Ban Breathnach, 2006

Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-ban Debate, ...

Based on extensive research in government archives and private papers, this book analyzes the secret debate within the Eisenhower administration over the pursuit of a nuclear test-ban agreement.

Benjamin P. Greene, 2007

Alvar Aalto: through the eyes of Shigeru Ban

Finnish architect and designer, Alvar Aalto, is universally acknowledged as one of the most important figures of twentieth century architecture.

Juhani Pallasmaa, Alvar Aalto, Tomoko Sato, 2007

British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban 1954-73: Britain, ...

Focusing on a key twenty year period, this study explores Britain's role in efforts to bring about a nuclear test ban treaty between 1954 and 1973.

John R. Walker, 2010

Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Debating the Gay Ban in the Military

In this text, experts of both persuasions come together to debate the critical aspects of the gays-in-the-military issue.

Aaron Belkin, Geoffrey Bateman, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ban is used in the context of the following news items.

Q&A panellists take Tony Abbott to task for ban on frontbenchers …

Monday night's Q&A panellists roundly criticised Tony Abbott's decision to ban government ministers from appearing on the ABC program. «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Garrick Club votes to continue with ban on female members

Garrick Club votes to continue with ban on female members. Bid to let women join fails at the AGM of the London gentlemen's club – as one ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

At Oslo forum, Ban warns capacity to meet humanitarian needs …

In Oslo (Norway), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses a forum on the role of civil society in humanitarian emergencies. UN Photo/Rick ... «UN News Centre, Jul 15»

The One-Year Shopping Ban: How This Woman Lived On Just 51 …

A month later (and a year ago today), she embarked upon a year-long shopping ban. Over the year, she got rid of 70% of her stuff, lived on just ... «Forbes, Jul 15»

Bruce Schneier: David Cameron's proposed encryption ban would …

A highly respected cryptographer and security expert is warning that David Cameron's proposed ban on strong encryption threatens to "destroy ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»

Oil market throws cold water on US export ban push

A handful of US senators last month sent a letter warning President Barack Obama that lifting America's 40-year-old ban on exports of crude oil ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»

FIFA hands 7-year ban to 2018, 2022 World Cup bid inspector

“The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee, chaired by Hans-Joachim Eckert, has decided to ban Harold Mayne-Nicholls, ... «RT, Jul 15»

BJ Penn supports UFC's IV rehydration ban, says 'IVs are for wimps'

The official ban doesn't go into place until October because of the unfair impact it would have on fighters already scheduled to compete. «MMAjunkie.com, Jul 15»

Dearborn might ban smoking in parks

DEARBORN, Mich. -- The city of Dearborn may soon ban smoking in all of its 43 public parks because of health concerns. If the ordinance is ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»

Argentina's World-Famous Beef Will Once Again Enter US Market …

The 14-year ban left Americans unable to taste a fresh Argentine steak inside their country. However, the world-famous meat is expected to ... «VICE News, Jul 15»