prohibition

Nouns

  • (n) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
    • in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US
  • (n) a decree that prohibits something ban, proscription,
  • (n) the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment prohibition era,
  • (n) refusal to approve or assent to
  • (n) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
    • they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter
    • a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages
    • he ignored his parents' forbiddance
    forbiddance, inhibition,

Synonyms

ban proscription prohibition era forbiddance inhibition

Words of close approximity

prohibitive
prohibition era prohibitionist Prohibition Party