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verb (used with object), banned, banning. 1. to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict: to ban nuclear weapons; The dictator banned all newspapers and books that criticized his regime. 2. Archaic. to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon. to curse; execrate.
Word Origin & History. ban O.E. bannan to summon, command, proclaim, from P.Gmc. *bannan proclaim, command, forbid (cf. O.H.G. bannan to command or forbid under threat of punishment, Ger. bannen banish, expel, curse), originally to speak publicly, from PIE base *bha- to speak (cf. O.Ir. bann law, Armenian ban word; see fame). Main modern sense of to prohibit is from O.N. cognate banna curse, prohibit, and probably in part from O.Fr. ban, which meant outlawry, banishment, among other things (see banal) and was a borrowing from Germanic.