'Prohibition' definitions:
Definition of 'prohibition'
(from WordNet)
noun
A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"
noun
A decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition, ban, proscription]
noun
The period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment [syn: prohibition, prohibition era]
noun
Refusal to approve or assent to
noun
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" [syn: prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance]
Definition of 'Prohibition'
From: GCIDE
- Prohibition \Pro`hi*bi"tion\, n. [L. prohibitio: cf. F. prohibition.]
- 1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. [1913 Webster]
- The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages. [1913 Webster]
- Writ of prohibition (Law), a writ issued by a superior tribunal, directed to an inferior court, commanding the latter to cease from the prosecution of a suit depending before it. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- Note: By ellipsis, prohibition is used for the writ itself. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Prohibition'
From: GCIDE
- Prohibition \Pro`hi*bi"tion\, n. The period of 1920 to 1932 in the United States, during which sale of alcoholic beverages were forbidden by the consitution. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'prohibition'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- ban,
- banning,
- bar,
- barring,
- blockade,
- boycott,
- check,
- circumscription,
- constraint,
- control,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curb,
- curtailment,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- deceleration,
- demarcation,
- determent,
- deterrence,
- disallowance,
- disallowing,
- discouragement,
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- embargo,
- estoppel,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- forbiddance,
- foreclosure,
- forestalling,
- halt,
- hindrance,
- inadmissibility,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- interdicting,
- interdiction,
- legal restraint,
- lockout,
- monopoly,
- narrowing,
- nonadmission,
- obviation,
- omission,
- outlawing,
- outlawry,
- preclusion,
- prevention,
- prohibitionism,
- proscribing,
- proscription,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- rationing,
- rein,
- rejection,
- relegation,
- repudiation,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- retrenchment,
- self-control,
- slowing down,
- stay,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stopping,
- taboo,
- tariff wall,
- thought control,
- Volstead Act