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# forbidden

«forbidden» in Mova's school dictionary: **not allowed, especially by a rule or law** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidden/#m1)

2) Forbidden can describe something you are told not to have or go near, which can seem tempting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidden/#m2)

### sense in the 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

- Swimming in the quarry is strictly forbidden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidden/#x1)
- Phones are forbidden during tests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidden/#x2)
- In the story, she opened the forbidden door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidden/#x3)
- It is forbidden to feed the animals at the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidden/#x4)
- The children were forbidden to go into the woods alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidden/#x5)
- Running by the pool is forbidden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidden/#x6)
- The forbidden fruit always seems sweeter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidden/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/14/)
- [The Forbidden City in Beijing was the palace of Chinese emperors from 1420 until 1912, and it is now a museum.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/14/)
- [The legend says the Forbidden City has 9,999 rooms because only Heaven can have 10,000; surveys count about 8,700.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «forbidden» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidden/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.