transcription, транскрипция: [ fə(r)bɪd(ə)n ]
1.
If something is forbidden , you are not allowed to do it or have it.
Smoking was forbidden everywhere...
It is forbidden to drive faster than 20mph.
ADJ : usu v-link ADJ , oft it v-link ADJ to-inf
2.
A forbidden place is one that you are not allowed to visit or enter.
This was a forbidden area for foreigners.
ADJ : usu ADJ n
3.
Forbidden is used to describe things that people strongly disapprove of or feel guilty about, and that are not often mentioned or talked about.
The war was a forbidden subject...
Divorce? It was such a forbidden word.
= taboo
ADJ : usu ADJ n