PROHIBITIONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prohibitionist mean? 

• PROHIBITIONIST (noun)
  The noun PROHIBITIONIST has 1 sense:

1. a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

  Familiarity information: PROHIBITIONIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROHIBITIONIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dry; prohibitionist

Hypernyms ("prohibitionist" is a kind of...):

crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)

Instance hyponyms:

Carry Amelia Moore Nation; Carry Nation; Nation (United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911))

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard; Willard (United States advocate of temperance and women's suffrage (1839-1898))

Derivation:

prohibition (a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages)

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