1.Definition: a decree that prohibits something

Related Noun(s):ban, proscription

Category: General

2.Definition: a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

"In 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"

Category: General

3.Definition: refusal to approve or assent to

Category: General

4.Definition: 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"

Related Noun(s):forbiddance, inhibition

Category: General

5.Definition: the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

Category: General