Definition of "Prohibition"

Prohibition

proper noun
1. (history) Any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.
  1. (US) 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.
2. (Islam) The 66th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.