Word
Contraband
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
con-tra-band
Definition
- n. - Illegal or prohibited traffic.
- n. - Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of
which is forbidden.
- n. - A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was
brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband
of war.
- a. - Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as,
contraband goods, or trade.
- v. t. - To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to
smuggle.
- v. t. - To declare prohibited; to forbid.
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