Dictionary Entry
prohibition
prohibition is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 20 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
- 2noun
Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
- 3noun
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"
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- 4noun
a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
"in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"
- 5noun
a decree that prohibits something
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- 6noun
refusal to approve or assent to
- 7noun
the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
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