Synonyms for Prohibition
ˌproʊ əˈbɪʃ ənpro·hi·bi·tion

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1. prohibitionnoun

   Antonyms:
   permission

2. prohibitionnoun

   any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal

   Antonyms:
   permission

3. prohibitionnoun

   Antonyms:
   permission

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1. prohibition

   A bar is something that is or may be firmly fixed, ordinarily with intent to prevent entrance or egress; as, the bars of a prison cell; the bars of a wood-lot. A barrier obstructs, but is not necessarily impassable. Barrier is used of objects more extensive than those to which bar is ordinarily applied. A mountain range may be a barrier to exploration; but a mass of sand across the entrance to a harbor is called a bar. Discovered falsehood is a bar to confidence. Barricade has become practically a technical name for an improvised street fortification, and, unless in some way modified, is usually so understood. A parapet is a low or breast-high wall, as about the edge of a roof, terrace, etc., especially, in military use, such a wall for the protection of troops; a rampart is the embankment surrounding a fort, on which the parapet is raised; the word rampart is often used as including the parapet. Bulwark is a general word for any defensive wall or rampart; its only technical use at present is in nautical language, where it signifies the raised side of a ship above the upper deck, topped by the rail. Compare BOUNDARY; IMPEDIMENT.

   Synonyms:
   bar, barricade, barrier, breastwork, bulwark, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, parapet, rampart, restraint, restriction

   Antonyms:
   admittance, entrance, opening, passage, road, thoroughfare, transit, way

   Preposition:
   A barrier to progress, against invasion; a barrier between nations.

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1. prohibition

   Synonyms:
   interdiction, inhibition, interdict, embargo, disallowance

   Antonyms:
   allowance, permission

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.9 / 7 votes

1. prohibitionnoun

   a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

   "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"

   Synonyms:
   ban, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, prohibition era

2. prohibition, ban, proscriptionnoun

   a decree that prohibits something

   Synonyms:
   forbidding, inhibition, forbiddance, ban, banning, prohibition era, prohibition, proscription, banishment

3. prohibition, prohibition eranoun

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

   Synonyms:
   prohibition, ban, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, prohibition era

4. prohibitionnoun

   refusal to approve or assent to

   Synonyms:
   ban, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, prohibition era

5. prohibition, inhibition, forbiddancenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   forbidding, inhibition, forbiddance, ban, banning, prohibition era, prohibition, proscription, suppression

Matched Categories

1. • Action
   • Decree
   • Law
   • Refusal

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1. prohibitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   interdiction, interdict, inhibition, disallowance, embargo

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1. List of paraphrases for "prohibition":

   ban, banning, prohibiting, prohibit, prohibitions, interdiction, prohibited, proscription, 'interdiction, bans, nuclear-test-ban, prohibits, banned, embargo, outlawing

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1. Prohibition

   Synonyms:
   The Noble Experiment

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How to use Prohibition in a sentence?

1. Will Rogers:

   Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

2. Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin:

   That's why I will work with you to craft the right bill that thoughtfully and carefully eliminates the era of prohibition that is currently failing us so miserably.

3. Albert Einstein:

   The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

4. Attorney John Marion:

   There is no prohibition in there about the owner using the owner's suite, this guy( Donald Trump), as Donald Trump wanders the property, is like the mayor of Mar-a-Lago, if you will.

5. Don Marquis:

   prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into