ban

1. 1.

   forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

   Synonymscensor

   Broaderoutlaw

   Narrowerembargo

   medium

2. 2.

   prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure

   “Smoking is banned in this building”

   Broaderforbid
3. 3.

   ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

   Synonymsbanish

   Broaderexpel

   Narrowerrusticate
4. 4.

   expel from a community or group

   Synonymsbanishostracizeostraciseshuncast outblackball

   Broaderexpel

Other forms of ban

plural

bani

past tense or participle

banned

present participle

banning

third person

bans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ban

What does ban mean?

ban means "a decree that prohibits something". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ban?

ban has 1 syllable: ban. In IPA it is /ˈbæn/.

What is another word for ban?

Close synonyms include prohibition, proscription, banning, forbiddance, forbidding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ban a common word?

ban is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ban?

1 word rhymes with ban. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.