banned
verbadjectivecommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//band//
- Canada//bænd//
- Australia//bæːnd//
- /[beənd] ~ [bɛənd]/
- /[beːnd] ~ [bɛeːnd]/
Forbidden; not allowed.
verb
- 1
Also a form of bansimple past and past participle of ban
adjective
- 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