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Meaning of "prohibition" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PROHIBITION

prohibition  [ˌprəʊɪˈbɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROHIBITION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prohibition is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROHIBITION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

prohibition

Prohibition

Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, is the legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, storage, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages. The term can also apply to the periods in the histories of the countries during which the prohibition of alcohol was enforced.

Definition of prohibition in the English dictionary

The first definition of prohibition in the dictionary is the act of prohibiting or state of being prohibited. Other definition of prohibition is an order or decree that prohibits. Prohibition is also a policy of legally forbidding the manufacture, transportation, sale, or consumption of alcoholic beverages except for medicinal or scientific purposes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROHIBITION


adhibition
ˌædhɪˈbɪʃən
ambition
æmˈbɪʃən
cohibition
ˌkəʊhɪˈbɪʃən
disinhibition
ˌdɪsɪnɪˈbɪʃən
exhibition
ˌɛksɪˈbɪʃən
imbibition
ˌɪmbɪˈbɪʃən
inhibition
ˌɪnɪˈbɪʃən
recognition
ˌrɛkəɡˈnɪʃən
recreation
ˌrɛkrɪˈeɪʃən
registration
ˌrɛdʒɪˈstreɪʃən
relation
rɪˈleɪʃən
reputation
ˌrɛpjʊˈteɪʃən
situation
ˌsɪtjʊˈeɪʃən
station
ˈsteɪʃən
submission
səbˈmɪʃən
tradition
trəˈdɪʃən
translation
trænsˈleɪʃən
transmission
trænzˈmɪʃən
transportation
ˌtrænspɔːˈteɪʃən
vacation
vəˈkeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROHIBITION

progressivism
progressivist
progressivistic
progressivity
progun
progymnasia
progymnasium
prohibit
prohibited substance
prohibiter
prohibitionary
prohibitionism
prohibitionist
prohibitive
prohibitively
prohibitiveness
prohibitor
prohibitory
proin
proinsulin

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROHIBITION

accreditation
acquisition
addition
audition
competition
composition
condition
definition
disposition
edition
expedition
exposition
ignition
in a position
in addition
in mint condition
limited edition
nutrition
opposition
position
transition

Synonyms and antonyms of prohibition in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PROHIBITION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «prohibition» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of prohibition

Translation of «prohibition» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROHIBITION

Find out the translation of prohibition to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prohibition from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prohibition» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

禁令
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prohibición
570 millions of speakers

English

prohibition
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निषेध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حظر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

запрет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

proibição
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিষেধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

interdiction
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Larangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verbot
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

禁止法
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

금지법
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Larangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cấm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தடை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मनाई
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yasak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

proibizione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zakaz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заборона
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

interdicție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απαγόρευση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verbod
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förbud
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forbud
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prohibition

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROHIBITION»

The term «prohibition» is very widely used and occupies the 22.870 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROHIBITION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prohibition» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prohibition» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prohibition

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10 QUOTES WITH «PROHIBITION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word prohibition.
1
Julian Baggini
I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.
2
Jello Biafra
For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.
3
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
4
Al Capone
Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.
5
Drew Carey
Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
6
Lauren DeStefano
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.
7
Erik Erikson
Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.
8
Martin Filler
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.
9
Vicente Fox
Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
10
Philip Gibbs
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROHIBITION»

Discover the use of prohibition in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prohibition and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America
So many people from all walks of life defied the ban that Will Rogers famously quipped, “Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.” Here is the full, rollicking story of those tumultuous days, from the flappers of the Jazz Age and ...
Edward Behr, 2013
2
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent’s rank as a major American writer.
Daniel Okrent, 2010
3
American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition
The book surveys the women's movement to repeal national prohibition and places it within the contexts of women's temperance activity, women's political activity during the 1920s, and the campaign for repeal.
Kenneth D. Rose, 1997
4
Prohibition
Provides users with a detailed and authoritative overview of this event, as well as the principal figures involved in this pivotal episode in U.S. history.
Jeff Hill, 2004
5
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
Filled with period art and photographs, anecdotes, and portraits of unique characters from the era, this fascinating book looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social experiment known as Prohibition.
Karen Blumenthal, 2011
6
Repealing National Prohibition
In this new edition of the most comprehensive study of the political reaction against the Eighteenth Amendment, a response that led to its reversal fourteen years later by the Twenty-first Amendment, David E. Kyvig examines the operation of ...
David E. Kyvig, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, 2000
7
After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the ...
More than 10 years ago, federal officials boldly claimed that they would create a drug-free America by 1995. Drug prohibition has proven to be a costly failure..
Timothy Lynch, 2000
8
Legalizing Marijuana: Drug Policy Reform and Prohibition ...
Highlights the failures of the government's war on marijuana, likening it to 1920s-style prohibition politics, and points to the need for citizen initiatives to change drug policy.
Rudolph Joseph Gerber, 2004
9
Pot Politics : Marijuana and the Costs of Prohibition: ...
The volume presents ethical, religious, economic, psychological, and political arguments for cannabis policies that range from prohibition to unrestricted legalization.
State University of New York Mitch Earleywine Associate Professor University at Albany, 2006
10
Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City
In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than ...
Michael A. LERNER, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROHIBITION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prohibition is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Top toques join Prohibition chef in celebrating local farm products …
Having spent the last year establishing Prohibition Supperclub & Bar as one of the best restaurants in downtown Houston, chef Ben McPherson ... «CultureMap Houston, Jul 15»
2
Bipartisan Bill May End Marijuana Prohibition In America
If ending prohibition takes away any possible legal consequences, people whose only ostensible criminal activity involves cannabis suddenly ... «Mintpress News, Jul 15»
3
Boy Scouts poised to end prohibition on gay leaders
The Boy Scouts of America is expected today to end its blanket ban on gay leaders — a turning point for an organization that has been in ... «Indiana Gazette, Jul 15»
4
Students try to hold 'liquor drinking protest' demanding prohibition in …
The members of the party -- Vidiyalai Thedi - wanted to hold the novel protest demanding that the government impose prohibition in the state. «Times of India, Jul 15»
5
New York Assemblyman Rails Against RAWA: “Prohibition Doesn't …
New York Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlow has been at the forefront of online gaming expansion talks in New York State. Pretlow introduced a bill ... «US Poker, Jul 15»
6
Safety concerns stack up at Rinehart's Roy Hill
Gina Rinehart's $US10 billion ($13.7 billion) Roy Hill project has received its 10th prohibition notice from the West Australian Department of ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
7
Brewing Boomed In Pre-Prohibition Pittsfield
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — One can only wonder what John White and Jacob Gimlich would have thought as federal officers poured 15,000 gallons ... «iBerkshires.com, Jul 15»
8
EDITORIAL: End betting prohibition
Remember the great era of Prohibition in the United States, from 1920 through 1933? That worked out really well, didn'€™t it? It didn't create a ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»
9
Temperance movement fought for more than prohibition
While prohibition ended, however, the WCTU remains, even sporting a website on the Internet. It may only be a shadow of its former self, but ... «Cecil Whig, Jul 15»
10
This Week in Missoula Government: Exotic animal performances …
... exotic animal performances prohibition; resolution levying a special assessment and tax upon property to reimburse the city for snow and ice ... «The Missoulian, Jul 15»

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