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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How to use ban in a sentence?

1. Sean Penn:

   For those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight, I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren’s eyes if they continue that way of support, we’ve got to have equal rights for everyone.

2. Hillary Clinton:

   The Republican nominee will do the exact opposite, he plays coy with white supremacists. … He demeans women. And he wants to ban an entire religion from entering the country.

3. Rand Paul:

   If we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet ... the terrorists will have won.

4. Elon Musk:

   I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump, I think Digital World Acquisition Corp. was a mistake, i would reverse the perma-ban. ... We should not have perma-bans.

5. Katie Hobbs:

   I will never stop fighting for our reproductive rights, while Kari Lake will uphold Arizona’s draconian abortion ban that will endanger women and imprison their doctors.