noun

• An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
• A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
• A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
• (history) Any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.
• (US) The period from 17 January 1920 through 5 December 1933 in the United States, between the effective dates of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments to the United States Constitution.
• (Islam) The 66th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.