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EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages; repealed in 1932
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
amendment (a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.))
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Holonyms ("Eighteenth Amendment" is a part of...):
Constitution; Constitution of the United States; U.S. Constitution; United States Constitution; US Constitution (the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states)
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