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temperance movement

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English

Syllables
tem-per-ance -move-ment
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

temperance movements (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

prohibition prohibitionism prohibitionist teetotaler

Questions

What does temperance movement mean?
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.

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