prohibition vs ban

prohibition and ban both are nouns.

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

As nouns, prohibition and ban are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of prohibition include proscription.

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

Other hyponyms of prohibition include interdiction, banning, forbiddance, forbidding.

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

prohibition (verb)	ban (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