| NOUN | person | prohibitionist, dry | a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages |
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| Meaning | A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages. | |
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| Synonym | dry | |
| Instances | Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation | United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) |
| Willard, Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard | United States advocate of temperance and women's suffrage (1839-1898) | |
| Broader | reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer, meliorist | A disputant who advocates reform |
| Spanish | prohibicionista | |
| Catalan | prohibicionista | |
| Nouns | 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 | |
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