banned
[beənd] ~ [bɛənd]UK/bænd/
banned is the simple past and past participle of ban.
Meaning of ban
Verb
ban (third-person singular simple present bans, present participle banning, simple past and past participle banned)
- To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
- Bare feet are banned in this establishment.
- To summon; to call out.
- To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
- To curse; to execrate.
- They will curse and ban[…]even into the deep pit of hell, all that gainsay their appetite.c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, a sermon
- To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
- :“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”1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...
Adjective
banned (comparative more banned, superlative most banned)
- Forbidden; not allowed.
- The London-based Free Tibet Campaign said at least 500 Tibetans had protested in the province's Luqu county on Saturday, where they burned Chinese flags and flew the banned Tibetan flag.2008 March 17, “Gansu Tibetan unrest contained: witnesses”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2026, Tibet
- As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020
- Synonyms:
- disallowed, prohibited, proscribed, forbidden, impermissible, illegal, illicit, interdicted, nonallowed, nonlicet
Synonyms of banned
- disallowed
- prohibited
- proscribed
- forbidden
- impermissible
- illegal
- illicit
- interdicted
- nonallowed
- proscript
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Forms of banned
| comparative | more banned |
|---|---|
| superlative | most banned |
Words formed from banned
Phrases with banned
Words that rhyme with banned
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- outstand
- overhand
- bestand
- gland
- secondhand
- unscanned
- disband
- grand
- offhand
- unmanned
- unplanned
- aband
- aland
- fanned
- firsthand
- lotus land
- lotusland
- misbrand
- planned
- redemand
- reland
- repand
- scanned
- shand
- tanned
- thirdhand
- withstand
- 2ndhand
- astrand
- at second hand
- counterdemand
- desand
- fand
- grande
- haircut band
- hand
- interstrand
- manned
- misunderstand
- multiplicand
- nonbrand
- operand
- overmanned
- overplanned
- panned
- preplanned
- rebrand
- replanned
Questions about banned
- What does banned mean?
- Banned means forbidden; not allowed.
- What is banned the simple past and past participle of?
- Banned is the simple past and past participle of ban.
- What part of speech is banned?
- Banned is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce banned?
- Banned is pronounced /bænd/ (UK).
Words near banned in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: banned (page history and authors); ban (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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