名词

1. 禁令；禁律
A prohibition is a law or rule forbidding something.

1. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)

e.g. they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter
a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages
he ignored his parents' forbiddance

Synonym: inhibitionforbiddance

2. a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

e.g. in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US

3. a decree that prohibits something

Synonym: banproscription

4. refusal to approve or assent to

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

Synonym: prohibition era