banned en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /band/ (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
- /bɛnd/ (New-Zealand)
- /bænd/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- /bæːnd/ (Australia)
- [beənd] ~ [bɛənd] General American, Canada, æ-raising
- [beːnd] ~ [bɛeːnd] Australia, æ-raising
Meanings
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Forbidden; not allowed.
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.
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020: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.
2008 March 17, “Gansu Tibetan unrest contained: witnesses”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2026, Tibet:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more banned | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most banned | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
verboten · illegal · nonlicet · prohibited · interdicted · forbidden · banned · disallowed · proscribed · illicit · disallowed · prohibited · nonallowed · proscribed · unpermitted · proscript · unallowed · impermissible
Translations (6)
es vedado (Translations) · hi वर्जित (Translations) · es defeso (Translations) · hi प्रतिबंधित (Translations) · de verboten (Translations) · fr interdit (Translations)