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Maffia

noun

1. a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia

• Syn: ↑Mafia, ↑Cosa Nostra

• Members of this Topic: ↑omerta

• Hypernyms: ↑syndicate, ↑crime syndicate, ↑mob, ↑family

• Member Meronyms: ↑mafioso

2. a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century

• Syn: ↑Mafia, ↑Sicilian Mafia

• Topics: ↑terrorism, ↑act of terrorism, ↑terrorist act

• Hypernyms: ↑organized crime, ↑gangland, ↑gangdom

• Member Meronyms: ↑mafioso

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noun

see mafia I

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maffaisour, maffia

var. ff. malfeasor, mafia.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.