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Definitions for Bans

[1] banns.
[2] to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict: to ban nuclear weapons; The dictator banned all newspapers and books that criticized his regime.
[3] Archaic . to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon. to curse; execrate.
[4] the act of prohibiting by law; interdiction.
[5] informal denunciation or prohibition, as by public opinion: society's ban on racial discrimination.
[6] Law . a proclamation. a public condemnation.
[7] Ecclesiastical . a formal condemnation; excommunication.
[8] a malediction; curse.
[9] notice of an intended marriage, given three times in the parish church of each of the betrothed.
[10] any public announcement of a proposed marriage, either verbal or written and made in a church or by church officials.
[11] a public proclamation or edict.
[12] bans, Ecclesiastical . banns.
[13] (in the feudal system) the summoning of the sovereign's vassals for military service. the body of vassals summoned.
[14] a variant spelling of banns
[15] the public declaration of an intended marriage, usually formally announced on three successive Sundays in the parish churches of both the betrothed
[16] forbid the banns to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
[17] (tr) to prohibit, esp officially, from action, display, entrance, sale, etc; forbid to ban a book ; to ban smoking
[18] (tr) (formerly in South Africa) to place (a person suspected of illegal political activity) under a government order restricting his movement and his contact with other people
[19] archaic to curse
[20] an official prohibition or interdiction
[21] law an official proclamation or public notice, esp of prohibition
[22] a public proclamation or edict, esp of outlawry
[23] archaic public censure or condemnation
[24] archaic a curse; imprecation
[25] (in feudal England) the summoning of vassals to perform their military obligations
[26] a monetary unit of Romania and Moldova worth one hundredth of a leu

Words related to Bans

embargo, restriction, refusal, injunction, prohibition, boycott, censorship, prohibit, bar, halt, prevent, suppress, outlaw, restrict, exclude, proscribe, proscription, stoppage, interdiction, limitation

Words nearby Bans

banon, banquet, banquet room, banquette, banquo, bans, bansela, banshee, banstead, bant, bantam

Origin of Bans

21200–50; Middle English, aphetic variant of iban, Old English gebann proclamation, summons to arms (derivative of bannan ban1), influenced in some senses by Old French ban, from same Germanic base

Words that may be confused with Bans

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, bannsbanns, bans

Other words from Bans

ban·na·ble , adjective
un·banned , adjective

Word origin for Bans

from Romanian, from Serbo-Croat bān lord

Synonyms for Bans

boycott, censorship, embargo, injunction, prohibition, refusal, restriction, interdiction, limitation, proscription, stoppage, suppression, taboo, a thou-shalt-not, don't, no-no, off limits, out of bounds