PROHIBITION ERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prohibition era mean? 

• PROHIBITION ERA (noun)
  The noun PROHIBITION ERA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PROHIBITION ERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROHIBITION ERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

prohibition; prohibition era

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

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