temperance movement

English

Noun

temperance movement (plural temperance movements)

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.

Translations

movement against alcohol consumption

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avholdsbevegelse m

See also

• prohibition, prohibitionism, prohibitionist
• teetotaler

References

• “temperance movement”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.