verboten

Borrowed from German verboten (“banned, forbidden, prohibited”).[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/, /fə-/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌfəɹˈboʊt(ə)n/, /ˌvəɹ-/, [-ɾ(ə)n]
• Rhymes: -əʊtən
• Hyphenation: ver‧bot‧en

verboten (not comparable)

1. (often emphatic or humorous) (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited.
   • 1916, John Buchan, “Further Adventures of the Same”, in Greenmantle, London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 63:

     I read on a notice that one was forbidden to smoke, so to show my ignorance of German I pulled out my pipe. Stumm raised his head, saw what I was doing, and gruffly bade me put it away, as if he were an old lady that disliked the smell of tobacco. In half an hour I got very bored, for I had nothing to read and my pipe was verboten.

   • 2015 February 27, Laura Kipnis, “Sexual paranoia strikes academe”, in The Chronicle of Higher Education‎, Washington, D.C.: Chronicle of Higher Education Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-22:

     Before that, students and professors could date whomever we wanted; the next day we were off-limits to one another—verboten, traife, dangerous (and perhaps, therefore, all the more alluring).

   • 2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The expensive education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-17:

     Or was it because he [Mark Zuckerberg] has since been steeped in the relentless positivity of Silicon Valley, where it is verboten to imagine a bad outcome?

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• IPA^(key): /fɛɐ̯ˈboːtn̩/, /fɛɐ̯ˈboːtən/

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verboten

1. past participle of verbieten

verboten (strong nominative masculine singular verbotener, not comparable)

1. forbidden, prohibited, banned

   Rauchen verboten - Do not smoke!

   • 1929, Kurt Tucholsky, Das Lächeln der Mona Lisa (Sammelband), Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, page 120:

     Für die Massen ist die Nation der Inbegriff alles Mystischen, Imponderabilen, schlechthin Unbegreiflichen – auf diesem Gebiet ist alles erlaubt und kann alles verboten sein, hier wachsen die großen Männer, deren Größe an der Kleinheit der Umstehenden gemessen wird.

     For the masses the nation is the embodiment of all that is mystical, imponderable, plainly incomprehensible – in this area everything is allowed and everything can be forbidden, here the great men grow, whose greatness is measured against the smallness of the bystanders.

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• “verboten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “verboten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “verboten” in Duden online
• “verboten” in OpenThesaurus.de