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Any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: history, human-sciences, sciences
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Any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.
The period from 17 January 1920 through 5 December 1933 in the United States, between the effective dates of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments to the United States Constitution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: history, human-sciences, sciences
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name
The 66th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion
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noun
An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: inhibition, forbiddance
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Broader terms: action
noun
a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: law
noun
a decree that prohibits something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: ban, proscription
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Broader terms: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript
Narrower terms: banning-order, injunction, enjoining, enjoinment, cease and desist order, interdict, interdiction
noun
refusal to approve or assent to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: refusal
Narrower terms: interdiction, ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding
noun
the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: prohibition era
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: time period, period of time, period
History
From Anglo-Norman and Old French prohibicion, from Latin prohibitiō. By surface analysis, prohibit + -ion.
Across languages
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