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banned

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//band//
  • Canada//bænd//
  • Australia//bæːnd//
  • /[beənd] ~ [bɛənd]/
  • /[beːnd] ~ [bɛeːnd]/

Forbidden; not allowed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of bansimple past and past participle of ban

adjective

  1. 1

    Forbidden; not allowed.

    The London-based Free Tibet Campaign said at least 500 Tibetans had protested in the province's Luqu county on Saturday, where they burned Chinese flags and flew the banned Tibetan flag.

    As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.

Forms

comparative
more banned
superlative
most banned
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).