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prohibition
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman and Old French prohibicion, from Latin prohibiti?.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p???(h)??b???n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?o?(h)??b???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
- Hyphenation: pro?hi?bi?tion
Noun
prohibition (countable and uncountable, plural prohibitions)
- 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.
Synonyms
- forbode
Antonyms
- permission
Related terms
- prohibit
Translations
French
Etymology
First attested in Old French, borrowed from Latin prohibiti?
Pronunciation
Noun
prohibition f (plural prohibitions)
- prohibition
- (specifically) prohibition of alcohol
Related terms
- prohiber
Further reading
- “prohibition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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barrier
English
Etymology
From Middle English barryer, barrere, barry?er, from Old French barriere (compare French barrière), from Old French barre (“bar”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?bæ?i.?(?)/
- (US, Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA(key): /?bæ?i.??/
- (US, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /?b??i.??/
- Rhymes: -æ?i?(?)
Noun
barrier (plural barriers)
- A structure that bars passage.
- The bus went through a railway barrier and was hit by a train.
- The bomber had passed through one checkpoint before blowing himself up at a second barrier.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- Even a small fee can be a barrier for some students.
- A boundary or limit.
- Few marathon runners break the three-hour time barrier.
- (grammar) A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- (physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- (historical) The lists in a tournament.
- (historical, in the plural) A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hindrance
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
barrier (third-person singular simple present barriers, present participle barriering, simple past and past participle barriered)
- (transitive) To block or obstruct with a barrier.
- Synonym: bar
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