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