prohibition

1. 1.

   a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

   “in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US”

   Broaderlaw

   law

2. 2.

   a decree that prohibits something

   Synonymsbanproscription

   Broaderdecree

   Narrowerbanning-orderinjunctioninterdict
3. 3.

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

   Synonymsprohibition era

   Broadertime period
4. 4.

   refusal to approve or assent to

   Broaderrefusal

   Narrowerinterdictionban
5. 5.

   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”

   Synonymsinhibitionforbiddance

   Broaderaction

Other forms of prohibition

plural

prohibitions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prohibition

What does prohibition mean?

prohibition means "a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prohibition?

prohibition has 4 syllables: pro-hi-bit-ion. The stress falls on "bit". In IPA it is /ˌpɹoʊəˈbɪʃən/.

What is another word for prohibition?

Close synonyms include ban, proscription, prohibition era, inhibition, forbiddance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prohibition a common word?

prohibition is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with prohibition?

3 words rhyme with prohibition. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.