An official or legal prohibition. The government imposed a ban on smoking in public places.
A public condemnation or excommunication. The church issued a ban against the heretic.
A monetary unit of Romania and Moldova equal to one hundredth of a leu. He paid the shopkeeper fifty ban for a loaf of bread.
An archaic proclamation or summons to arms issued by a sovereign. The king sent out the ban to rally his vassals.