| 单词 | ban |
| 释义 | ban ban1 —bannable, adj. /ban/, v. , banned, banning, n. v.t. 1. to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict: to ban nuclear weapons; The dictator banned all newspapers and books that criticized his regime. 2. Archaic. a. to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon. b. to curse; execrate. n. 3. the act of prohibiting by law; interdiction. 4. informal denunciation or prohibition, as by public opinion: society's ban on racial discrimination. 5. Law. a. a proclamation. b. a public condemnation. 6. Eccles. a formal condemnation; excommunication. 7. a malediction; curse. [bef. 1000; ME bannen, OE bannan to summon, proclaim; c. ON banna to curse (prob. influencing some senses of ME word), OHG bannan; akin to L fari to speak, Skt bhanati (he) speaks] Syn. 1. taboo, outlaw, proscribe. 3. prohibition, proscription, interdict. 3, 4. taboo. Ant. 1. allow. ban2 /ban/, n. 1. a public proclamation or edict. 2. bans, Eccles. banns. 3. (in the feudal system) a. the summoning of the sovereign's vassals for military service. b. the body of vassals summoned. [1200-50; ME, aph. var. of iban, OE gebann proclamation, summons to arms (deriv. of bannan BAN1), influenced in some senses by OF ban, from same Gmc base] ban3 /ban, bahn/, n. 1. (formerly) the governor of Croatia and Slavonia. 2. Hist. a provincial governor of the southern marches of Hungary. [1605-15; < Serbo-Croatian bân, contracted from *bojan, *bajan, said to be < a Turkic personal name, perh. introduced into the Balkans by the Avars; cf. MGk bo(e)ános ban] ban4 /bahn/, n. , pl. bani /bah"nee/. a Rumanian coin, the 100th part of a leu. [1960-65; < Rumanian, of uncert. orig., perh. < Serbo-Croatian bân BAN3] |
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