ban vs prohibition

prohibition vs ban

ban and prohibition both are nouns.

ban is a verb but prohibition is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ban	Yes	No	Yes	No
prohibition	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ban and prohibition are synonyms defined as:

ban and prohibition: a decree that prohibits something

Other synonyms of ban include proscription.

As nouns, prohibition is a hypernym of ban; that is, prohibition is a word with a broader meaning than ban:

ban: an official prohibition or edict against something
prohibition: refusal to approve or assent to

ban (noun)	prohibition (noun)
a decree that prohibits something	the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
an official prohibition or edict against something	a decree that prohibits something
100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania	refusal to approve or assent to
100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova	a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10.	the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

ban (verb)	prohibition (verb)
prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure
forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper)
expel from a community or group
ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

Difference between ban and prohibition

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