banned

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /bænd/
  • (General American, Canada, æ-raising) IPA^(key): [beənd] ~ [bɛənd]

    • Audio (US); [beənd]:

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• (Standard Southern British, Northern England, Scotland, Wales) IPA^(key): /band/
• (Australian) IPA^(key): /bæːnd/
  • (Australia, æ-raising) IPA^(key): [beːnd] ~ [bɛeːnd]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /bɛnd/
• Rhymes: -ænd
• Homophone: band

Verb

banned

1. simple past and past participle of ban

Adjective

banned (comparative more banned, superlative most banned)

1. Forbidden; not allowed.

   Synonyms: disallowed, prohibited, proscribed; see also Thesaurus:forbidden

   • 2008 March 17, “Gansu Tibetan unrest contained: witnesses”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 March 2026, Tibet‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist‎^[3], volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 August 2020:

     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.

Derived terms

• permabanned

Translations

Translations

• French: interdit (fr) m
• German: verboten (de)
• Hindi: वर्जित (hi) (varjit), प्रतिबंधित (pratibandhit)
• Spanish: vedado (es), defeso