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Ban
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 A prohibition.
"That sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence, Much more to taste it under ban to touch"
- 2 A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
- 3 A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
- 4 A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
- 5 Initialism of British Approved Name. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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- 6 a decree that prohibits something wordnet
- 7 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."
- 8 A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
- 9 a bachelor's degree in nursing wordnet
- 10 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; […]"
- 11 an official prohibition or edict against something wordnet
- 12 A curse or anathema. obsolete
"With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected"
- 13 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania wordnet
- 14 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.
- 15 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova wordnet
- 16 a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. wordnet
- 1 To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation. transitive
"Bare feet are banned in this establishment."
- 2 prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure wordnet
- 3 To summon; to call out. obsolete, transitive
- 4 forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper) wordnet
- 5 To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban. transitive
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- 6 expel from a community or group wordnet
- 7 To curse; to execrate. transitive
"They will curse and ban[…]even into the deep pit of hell, all that gainsay their appetite."
- 8 ban from a place of residence, as for punishment wordnet
- 9 To curse; to utter curses or maledictions. ambitransitive
":“I seldom ban, sir,” said he to the man; “but if you play any of your hound's-foot tricks, and leave puir Berwick before he's sorted, to rin after spuilzie, deil be wi' me if I do not give your craig a thraw”"
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.
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.
Borrowed from Romanian ban of uncertain origin, perhaps from Serbo-Croatian bân.
From Banburismus; coined by Alan Turing.
From South Slavic (compare Serbo-Croatian bȃn), from Proto-Slavic *banъ; see there for more.
* As a Hungarian surname, from Bán. * As a Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian surname, from bán (“governor”), probably related to Avar баян (bajan, “rich man”). * As a Slovene, reduced from Urban. * As a German surname, spelling variant of Bann. * As a Japanese surname, from 坂 (Ban). * As a Korean surname, spelling variant of Pan. * As a Chinese surname, from 班 (Bān).
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