Synonyms for banned

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ban

Phonetic Transcription : bæn

Définition of banned

Origin : Old English bannan "to summon, command, proclaim," from Proto-Germanic *bannan "proclaim, command, forbid" (cf. Old High German bannan "to command or forbid under threat of punishment," German bannen "banish, expel, curse"), originally "to speak publicly," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak" (cf. Old Irish bann "law," Armenian ban "word;" see fame (n.)).
Main modern sense of "to prohibit" (late 14c.) is from Old Norse cognate banna "to curse, prohibit," and probably in part from Old French ban, which meant "outlawry, banishment," among other things (see banal) and was a borrowing from Germanic. The sense evolution in Germanic was from "speak" to "proclaim a threat" to (in Norse, German, etc.) "curse."
The Germanic root, borrowed in Latin and French, has been productive, e.g. banish, bandit, contraband, etc. Related: Banned; banning. Banned in Boston dates from 1920s, in allusion to the excessive zeal and power of that city's Watch and Ward Society.

adj outlawed

Example sentences :

I'm so sick of hearing that man's name that I could wish it banned.
Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton

An offence against table-manners is banned like an attack on the Church.
Extract from : « The New Society » by Walther Rathenau

It was all banned about fifty years ago, on account of the congestion.
Extract from : « Starman's Quest » by Robert Silverberg

He banned the obtruding priest by name and all his accomplices.
Extract from : « Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln » by Charles L. Marson

Premacy; as, to gain divorce, The foreign Pope is banned perforce.
Extract from : « A Humorous History of England » by C. Harrison

This unfortunate intimacy caused Gwen to be banned the more.
Extract from : « The Youngest Girl in the Fifth » by Angela Brazil

Since such a man was banned by the world, which was to be despised?
Extract from : « Evan Harrington, Complete » by George Meredith

To ask all did not seem selfishness to her; it was asking nothing or too little that she banned.
Extract from : « Double Harness » by Anthony Hope

It is banned now even from our fancy as irrevocably as the elf-kingdom of the nursery.
Extract from : « The Joys of Being a Woman » by Winifred Kirkland

These items are banned from carriage to China in British flag vessels.
Extract from : « East-West Trade Trends » by Harold E. Stassen

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