Synonyms for ban
bɑn; ˈbɑ niban

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1. ban

   Banish, primarily to put under ban, to compel by authority to leave a place or country, perhaps with restriction to some other place or country. From a country, a person may be banished, exiled, or expatriated; banished from any country where he may happen to be, but expatriated or exiled only from his own. One may expatriate or exile himself; he is banished by others. Banish is a word of wide import; one may banish disturbing thoughts; care may banish sleep. To expel is to drive out with violence or rudeness, and so often with disgrace.

   Synonyms:
   banish, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, drive out, eject, evict, exile, expatriate, expel, ostracize, oust

   Preposition:
   Cataline was banished from Rome; John the Apostle was banished to Patmos.

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1. prohibition, ban, proscriptionnoun

   a decree that prohibits something

   Synonyms:
   forbidding, inhibition, forbiddance, banning, prohibition era, prohibition, proscription, banishment

2. bannoun

   100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova

   Synonyms:
   prohibition, forbidding, forbiddance, proscription, banning

3. bannoun

   100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania

   Synonyms:
   prohibition, forbidding, forbiddance, proscription, banning

4. ban, banning, forbiddance, forbiddingnoun

   an official prohibition or edict against something

   Synonyms:
   prohibition, forbidding, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, banning

5. Bachelor of Arts in Nursing, BANverb

   a bachelor's degree in nursing

   Synonyms:
   prohibition, forbidding, forbiddance, proscription, banning

6. ban, censorverb

   forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

   Synonyms:
   blackball, censor, banish, ostracise, cast out, ostracize, shun

7. banverb

   prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure

   "Smoking is banned in this building"

   Synonyms:
   ostracise, cast out, shun, banish, ostracize, censor, blackball

8. banish, banverb

   ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

   Synonyms:
   blackball, ostracize, bar, banish, ostracise, cast out, relegate, censor, shun

9. banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackballverb

   expel from a community or group

   Synonyms:
   ostracize, veto, toss, relegate, cast out, toss out, fling, eschew, blackball, banish, chuck out, dispose, throw away, bar, censor, cast away, ostracise, cast aside, throw out, negative, put away, toss away, discard, shun

Matched Categories

1. • Romanian Monetary Unit
   • Expel
   • Forbid
   • Moldovan Monetary Unit

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1. bannoun

   Synonyms:
   proclamation, edict

2. bannoun

   Synonyms:
   curse, malediction, excommunication, denunciation, execration, anathema

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1. bannoun

   Synonyms:
   announcement, notice, curse, anathema, denunciation, malediction, execration, interdiction, proscription, interdict, taboo

2. banverb

   Synonyms:
   curse, anathematize, execrate, interdict, forbid, proscribe, taboo

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1. List of paraphrases for "ban":

   prohibition, prohibit, banning, embargo, prohibiting, forbid, interdiction, outlaw, prohibited, prohibitions, nuclear-test-ban, proscription, outlawing, prohibits, proscribe, 'interdiction, banish, banned

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1. Mehdi Rajabian:

   Coronavirus days are a normal day for me. I have been completely alone at home for years, a complete ban. It was as if I had been transferred from a smaller prison to a larger one, in Iran, because of the ban, all artists and journalists and even ordinary people inside Iran are afraid to even talk to me, I am completely alone, and I am always at home.

2. Paul Callan:

   The( executive order) does not explicitly ban regulations mandating the use of face masks by children in Florida Statutes schools, the authority to regulate this lies with the Florida Department of Health after consultation with the Florida Department of Education, not with the governor.

3. Christopher Ferrara:

   Suddenly, the limit on mass gatherings was no longer necessary to save lives, yet they were continuing to ban high school graduations and other outdoor gatherings exceeding a mere 25 people.

4. Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko:

   I am really happy for Yulia Efimova, wADA( World Anti-Doping Agency) has taken absolutely the right decision to recommend that Efimova's temporary ban is lifted.

5. Karl Fowlkes:

   AI companies using copyrighted works to train their models to create similar works is exactly the type of behavior the copyright office and courts should explicitly ban. Original art is meant to be protected by law, not works created by machines that used the original art to create new work.