prohibition
Syllables: pro·hi·bi·tionUK/ˌpɹəʊ(h)ɪˈbɪʃən//ˌpɹoʊ(h)ɪˈbɪʃən/
prohibition noun: an act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
Noun
prohibition (countable and uncountable, plural prohibitions)
- An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
- By its terms, the Twenty-Second Amendment bars only the election of two-term Presidents, and this prohibition would not prevent someone who had twice been elected President from succeeding to the office after having been elected or appointed Vice President. Broader language providing that no such...
- But the prohibition on active advocacy and participation left a wide margin of allowable activity and was open to interpretation.2021 December 20, Oren Liebermann, Barbara Starr, “Pentagon defines prohibited behavior in effort to tackle extremism”, in CNN, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2022
- A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
- First, some persons might consider my advocacy of prohibition rather odd for a congressman coming from the state which produces the finest bourbon whiskey in the world. While this is true, it is also true that prior to the Eighteenth Amendment a large majority of the counties of Kentucky had voted...1954, Alben W. Barkley, That Reminds Me, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42
- A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
Proper noun capitalized: Prohibition
Prohibition
- Any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.
- The period from 17 January 1920 through 5 December 1933 in the United States, between the effective dates of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments to the United States Constitution.
- The 66th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
prohibition meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
prohibition in Hindi
- act of prohibiting
- निषेध niṣedh, मनाही manāhī
prohibition in Tamil
- தடை, தடை செய்தல், தடை உத்தரவு, மறித்தல், விலக்கு, மதுவிலக்கு
prohibition in Marathi
- prohibition
- मनाई manāī
prohibition in Urdu
- act of prohibiting
- پابَنْدی pābandī, مَناہی manāhī, مَمْنُوعِیَت mamnū'iyat
More languagesFewer languages
- prohibition in Bengali
- নিষিদ্ধকরণ niśiddhokron
- prohibition in Malayalam
- നിരോധനം nirōdhanaṁ
- prohibition in Kannada
- ನಿಷೇಧ niṣēdha, ಅರ್ಥ artha
- prohibition in Sanskrit
- उपालम्भ upālambha
- prohibition in Assamese
- মানা mana
- prohibition in Pashto
- قدغن qadaǧán
- prohibition in Arabic
- حَظْر ḥaẓr, مَنْع manʕ
- prohibition in Malay
- larangan
- prohibition in Indonesian
- larangan
- prohibition in Thai
- การห้าม gaan-hâam, ข้อห้าม kɔ̂ɔ-hâam
- prohibition in Vietnamese
- sự cấm, cấm chỉ
- prohibition in Myanmar
- အပိတ်အပင် a.pit-a.pang, တားမြစ်ချက် ta:mrachkyak
Examples of prohibition in a sentence
- But more recently, some courts have shown hostility towards gun prohibitions aimed at 18- to 20-year-olds.2025 January 30, Tierney Sneed, “Federal law banning handgun sales 18- to 20-year-olds is unconstitutional, appeals court rules”, in CNN...
- First, some persons might consider my advocacy of prohibition rather odd for a congressman coming from the state which produces the finest bourbon whiskey in the world.1954, Alben W. Barkley, That Reminds Me, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:
Synonyms of prohibition
Antonyms
Forms of prohibition
| plural | prohibitions |
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Origin of prohibition
From Anglo-Norman and Old French prohibicion, from Latin prohibitiō. By surface analysis, prohibit + -ion.
Words formed from prohibition
Phrases with prohibition
Words that rhyme with prohibition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about prohibition
- What does prohibition mean?
- Prohibition means an act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
- What is prohibition in Hindi?
- Prohibition in Hindi is निषेध (niṣedh), मनाही (manāhī). See Prohibition meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use prohibition in a sentence?
- But more recently, some courts have shown hostility towards gun prohibitions aimed at 18- to 20-year-olds.
- What part of speech is prohibition?
- Prohibition can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce prohibition?
- Prohibition is pronounced /ˌpɹəʊ(h)ɪˈbɪʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of prohibition?
- The plural of prohibition is prohibitions.
Words near prohibition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: prohibition (page history and authors); Prohibition (page history and authors); prohibition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); मनाई (Marathi) (page history and authors); নিষিদ্ধকরণ (Bengali) (page history and authors); നിരോധനം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಅರ್ಥ (Kannada) (page history and authors); उपालम्भ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); মানা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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