Prohibition
The English word “Prohibition” has 3 meanings listed here.
proper noun
- 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.
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