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