(ban) v.t.
1. To forbid; to proscribe or prohibit.
2. To place under an ecclesiastical ban; excommunicate; anathematize; interdict.
3. Archaic To curse; execrate.
—noun
1. An official proclamation or edict, especially one of prohibition.
2. plural An announcement of intention to marry: often spelled banns.
3. Informal disapproval or prohibition, as by public opinion.
4. An ecclesiastical edict of excommunication or interdiction.
5. A sentence of outlawry or banishment.
6. The summoning of vassals to arms by a feudal lord; also, the forces so collected.
7. Archaic A curse or denunciation. [v. <OHG bannan curse, prohibit and Med. L bannum proclamation; noun <v. and OF ban <Med. L bannum <Gmc.]

(ban) v.t. Obs.
To summon; call forth; call for. [OE bannan proclaim]

(ban) noun
A fine muslin made in the East Indies, from the fiber of the banana leafstalk. [<BANANA]

(ban) noun Archaic
1. The title of the ruler of the southern marches of Hungary.
2. The governor of Croatia and Slavonia. [<Serbo-Croatian bān lord, ruler]

(bän) noun plural ba·ni (bä′nē)
A Rumanian copper coin, worth 1/100 of a leu.