WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Laban
    n 1: Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation
         (1879-1958) [syn: Laban, Rudolph Laban]

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:

Laban
   white. (1.) The son of Bethuel, who was the son of Nahor,
   Abraham's brother. He lived at Haran in Mesopotamia. His sister
   Rebekah was Isaac's wife (Gen. 24). Jacob, one of the sons of
   this marriage, fled to the house of Laban, whose daughters Leah
   and Rachel (ch. 29) he eventually married. (See JACOB.)

     (2.) A city in the Arabian desert in the route of the
   Israelites (Deut. 1:1), probably identical with Libnah (Num.
   33:20).


Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's):

Laban, white; shining; gentle; brittle