banns meaning, definition, what is banns: a public statement that two people inten...: Learn more.
The meaning of BANNS is public announcement especially in church of a proposed marriage. How to use banns in a sentence.
The meaning "an authoritative prohibition" is from 1660s. There are noun forms in most of the Germanic languages, from the verbs. Comparebanns. bann(n.) in phrasebanns of marriage, an alternative spelling ofban(n.); seebanns.