PROHIBITION ERA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

prohibition; prohibition era

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("prohibition era" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

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