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PROHIBITIONIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
Synonyms:
dry; prohibitionist
Classified under:
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)
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