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How to pronounce “ban”
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Pronunciation guide for ban
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of ban with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- LGBT Advocacy
would ban workplace discrimination
- Definition summary
- (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce ban
LGBT Advocacy
would ban workplace discrimination
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “ban”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
- (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
- (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
- (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
- (ambitransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
- [Noun]
- A prohibition.
- A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
- The gathering of the (French) king’s vassals for war; the whole body of vassals assembled this way, or liable to be summoned; originally the same as arriere-ban, but distinct since the 16th century, following French usage—see arriere-ban.
- (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
- A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
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