forbidden
part of speech
adjective (forbidden); also the past participle of «forbid» (forbid, forbids, forbade, forbidden, forbidding)
meaning for a pupil
1) Forbidden means not allowed, especially by a rule or law. tree →
2) Forbidden can describe something you are told not to have or go near, which can seem tempting. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means something God has told Israel not to do, as with making images. Interpretation: The second commandment forbids carved images. Tradition reads the warning as a guard against idol worship. In the primary lessons: In school and safety, forbidden areas include building sites, railway lines and teachers' rooms; forbidden behaviour breaks the rules. In fairy tales, a forbidden door, fruit or forest usually leads to trouble. Phrases: «strictly forbidden», «forbidden fruit», «it is forbidden to …».
examples
- Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which He made with you, and make you a graven image, even the likeness of any thing which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. (Torah DEU.4.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- Swimming in the quarry is strictly forbidden. tree →
- Phones are forbidden during tests. tree →
- In the story, she opened the forbidden door. tree →
- It is forbidden to feed the animals at the zoo. tree →
- The children were forbidden to go into the woods alone. tree →
- Running by the pool is forbidden. tree →
- The forbidden fruit always seems sweeter. tree →
note
Irregular: forbid, forbade (said «for-BAD»), forbidden. Patterns: «forbid someone to do» or «from doing». Similar: «banned», «not allowed», «prohibited». Opposite: «allowed», «permitted». Not a number word.
In the corpora
- For a long time making silk was a secret, and carrying silkworm eggs out of China was forbidden.
- The Forbidden City in Beijing was the palace of Chinese emperors from 1420 until 1912, and it is now a museum.
- The legend says the Forbidden City has 9,999 rooms because only Heaven can have 10,000; surveys count about 8,700.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «forbidden» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.