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noun (n)

• a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages(noun.communication)

  Example:
  In 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a decree that prohibits something(noun.communication)

  Synonym:
  ban, proscription
  

  source: wordnet30
• the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment(noun.time)

  Synonym:
  prohibition era
  

  source: wordnet30
• refusal to approve or assent to(noun.communication)

  source: wordnet30
• the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)(noun.act)

  Example:
  They were restrained by a prohibition in their charter.
  

  Synonym:
  forbiddance, inhibition
  

  source: wordnet30
• The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.(noun)

  source: webster1913