English Explanatory Dictionary

temperance movement

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A social movement which campaigned against the consumption of alcohol, and which spread to many countries in its heyday in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Word forms

temperance movement temperance movements

Related words

prohibition prohibitionism prohibitionist teetotaler
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