eighteenth amendment

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   an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages; repealed in 1932

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   Part ofUnited States Constitution

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Questions about eighteenth amendment

What does eighteenth amendment mean?

eighteenth amendment means "an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages; repealed in 1932".

Is eighteenth amendment a common word?

eighteenth amendment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.