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Banning

//ˈbænɪŋ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A city in Riverside County, California, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is banned; a prohibition.

    "And it was not as though they were unable, as the waves of bannings and algorithmic deboosting of those on the online right began in earnest after 2016."

  2. 2
    an official prohibition or edict against something wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of ban form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From ban + -ing.

Etymology 2

From Middle English banning, bannyng, bonnyng, equivalent to ban + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian banning, Dutch banning, German Low German Banning, German Bannung.

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