Usually means: Public announcement of intended marriage.
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  1. banns: Merriam-Webster
  2. banns: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. banns: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. banns: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Banns, banns: Wordnik
  7. banns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. banns: Wiktionary
  9. banns: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. banns: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  12. Banns, banns: Dictionary.com
  13. banns: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Banns: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Banns: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. banns: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. banns: Rhymezone
  18. Banns: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. banns: FreeDictionary.org
  20. banns: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. banns: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. banns: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. BANNS, BANNS, BANNS: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. banns: Genealogy Glossary
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noun:  The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage).
noun:  Historically, any public announcement of a coming event.

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