ban

verb

/ˈbæn/US/ˈbɛən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bannen (“to summon; to banish; to curse”), partly from Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim, call out”), from Proto-West Germanic *bannan; and partly from Old Norse banna (“to prohibit; to curse”), both from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, to order; to summon; to ban; to curse, forbid”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-new-ti ~ bʰh₂-n̥w-énti, innovative nasal-infixed zero-grade athematic present of *bʰeh₂- (“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 भनति (bhánati), Armenian բան (ban) and perhaps Albanian banoj (“to reside, dwell”). See also banal, abandon.

derived from баян — “rich man”

Definitions

1
To prohibit
To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
- Bare feet are banned in this establishment.
- To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned
- Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.
To summon
To summon; to call out.
To anathematize
To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
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1. 4
  To curse
  To curse; to execrate.
  - They will curse and ban[…]even into the deep pit of hell, all that gainsay their appetite.
2. 5
  A prohibition.
  - That sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence, Much more to taste it under ban to touch
  - California has been on the forefront of plastic bag bans. In 2007, Mr. Newsom, as mayor of San Francisco, signed a law that made the city the first in the nation to ban plastic bags in grocery stores.
3. 6
  A public proclamation or edict
  A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
  - Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any publike notice.
4. 7
  The gathering of the (French) king’s vassals for war
  The gathering of the (French) king’s vassals for war; the whole body of vassals assembled this way, or liable to be summoned; originally the same as arriere-ban, but distinct since the 16th century, following French usage—see arriere-ban.
  - […] he hath sente abroade to assemble his van and arriere van; wherby, and with the reste of his forces, he prepareth him selfe to enter this countrey; […]
  - […] all the Ban and the Arrierban, are met arm’d in the field, to choose a King […]
  - France was at such a Pinch for Men, […] that they call’d their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long disus’ed, and in a Manner antiquated.
5. 8
  A curse or anathema.
  - With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected
6. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as…
  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.
7. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
8. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
9. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the…
  A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
10. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th…
  A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
11. Initialism of British Approved Name.
12. A surname.

The neighborhood

neighborbanns

Derived

ban overtime, forban, shadowban, antiban, argatroban, ban hammer, ban-hound, bannable, banner, ban-the-bomber, banworthy, black ban, blanket ban, bonk ban, centiban, exit ban, fissban, ghostban, green ban, hellban, instaban, kickban, overtime ban, permaban, preban, reban, stealthban, total fire ban, unban, -xaban

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ban. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at ban. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at ban

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA