1. (

• prohibition ,

) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US" ;

2. (

• prohibition ,
• ban ,
• proscription

) a decree that prohibits something ;

3. (

• prohibition ,
• prohibition_era

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

4. (

• prohibition ,

) refusal to approve or assent to ;

5. (

• prohibition ,
• inhibition ,
• forbiddance

) 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" ;