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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ban1 /ban/

▶verb (bans, banning, banned) officially or legally prohibit. ▶noun an official or legal prohibition.

– origin OE bannan ‘summon by a public proclamation’, of Gmc origin; the noun is partly from OFr. ban ‘proclamation, summons, banishment’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ban2 /bɑːn/

▶noun (pl. bani /ˈbɑːni/) a monetary unit of Romania, equal to one hundredth of a leu.

– origin from Romanian.

'ban' also found in these Oxford entries:

abandon - banal - bandit - bani - banish - banns - blanket - bone - contraband - embargo - lift - name - outlaw - pro-life - sampan - unban - veto

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