DICTOMETER

PROHIBITION

(prohibition, entredicho, prohibición <font class="fm">f</font>, forbud)

1. Synonyms:
   • Prohibition
   Definitions:
   • a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
   Examples:
   • In 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Prohibition
   • Ban
   • Proscription
   Definitions:
   • a decree that prohibits something
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Prohibition
   • Prohibition era
   Definitions:
   • the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Prohibition
   Definitions:
   • refusal to approve or assent to
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Prohibition
   • Inhibition
   • Forbiddance
   Definitions:
   • the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
   Examples:
   • They were restrained by a prohibition in their charter
   • A medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages
   • He ignored his parents' forbiddance