law vs prohibition

prohibition vs law

law and prohibition both are nouns.

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

As nouns, prohibition is a hyponym of law; that is, prohibition is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than law:

law: legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
prohibition: a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

Other hyponyms of law include anti-drug law, anti-racketeering law, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO, RICO Act, antitrust law, antitrust legislation, statute of limitations, constitution, fundamental law, organic law, public law, blue law, blue sky law, gag law, homestead law, poor law, Riot Act.

law (noun)	prohibition (noun)
the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system	the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society	a decree that prohibits something
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature	refusal to approve or assent to
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do	a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity	the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
the collection of rules imposed by authority
the force of policemen and officers

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