Meaning | A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages. |
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Synonym | dry |
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Instances | Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation | United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) |
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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 |
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Spanish | prohibicionista |
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Catalan | prohibicionista |
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Nouns | prohibition | a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages |
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prohibition | the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment |