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English noun: prohibition | |||
| 1. | prohibition (communication) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages | ||
| Samples | In 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | law | ||
| Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||
| 2. | prohibition (communication) a decree that prohibits something | ||
| Synonyms | ban, proscription | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | banning-order, cease and desist order, enjoining, enjoinment, injunction, interdict, interdiction | ||
| 3. | prohibition (time) 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period | ||
| 4. | prohibition (communication) refusal to approve or assent to | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | refusal | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding, interdiction | ||
| 5. | prohibition (act) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | ||
| Samples | They were restrained by a prohibition in their charter. A medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages. He ignored his parents' forbiddance. | ||
| Synonyms | forbiddance, inhibition | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | action | ||
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