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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn: ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding]

Merriam Webster's

geographical name city S California ESE of Riverside population 23,562

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ban Ban, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Banning.] [OE. bannen, bannien, to summon, curse, AS. bannan to summon; akin to Dan. bande, forbande, to curse, Sw. banna to revile, bannas to curse. See Ban an edict, and cf. Banish.] 1. To curse; to invoke evil upon. --Sir W. Scott. 2. To forbid; to interdict. --Byron.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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