prohibition vs law

law vs prohibition

prohibition and law both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

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