Home › Words › B › banningbanning/ˈbænɪŋ/banning means A surname.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, banning ranks #7,548 of 42,785 for Qualifying.banning is pronounced /ˈbænɪŋ/.EtymologyFrom Middle English banning, bannyng, bonnyng, equivalent to ban + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian banning, Dutch banning, German Low German Banning, German Bannung.nameA surname.A city in Riverside County, California, United States.nounThe act by which something is banned; a prohibition.e.g.“And it was not as though they were unable, as the waves of bannings and algorithmic deboosting of those on the online right began in earnest after 2016.” — 2023 March 16, Andrew Isker, “The Regime’s War To Make Memes Illegal”, in Gab News, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2023:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.prohibition 75% match — An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something. vs banning →bannination 75% match — A ban. vs banning →bannition 75% match — The act of expulsion. vs banning →ban 73% match — To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation. vs banning →banishment 70% match — The act of banishing. vs banning →forbiddance 68% match — An act of forbidding, prohibition; an official edict against something. vs banning →forbiddal 68% match — The act of forbidding something. vs banning →banned 67% match — Forbidden; not allowed. vs banning →