1. an official prohibition or edict against something • Syn: ban, banning, forbidding • Derivationally related forms: forbid (for: forbidding), forbid, ban (for: ban) • Hypernyms: prohibition • Hyponyms: test ban 2. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) - they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter - a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages - he ignored his parents' forbiddance • Syn: prohibition, inhibition • Derivationally related forms: forbid, inhibit (for: inhibition), prohibit (for: prohibition) • Hypernyms: action
