Mafia

Main Entry:
Mafia [mah-fee-uh, maf-ee-uh]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: gang
Synonyms: cosa nostra, family, mafioso, underworld
Notes: mafia in Sicilian means 'boldness, bluster, swagger' or 'beauty, excellence, bravery'; mafia is the organization and mafioso is an individual member
Main Entry: clique
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: group of friends
Synonyms: Mafia, bunch, cabal, camarilla, camp, circle, clan, club, coterie, crew, crowd, crush, faction, gang, in-group, insiders, lobby, mob, organization, outfit, pack, posse, ring, set, society
Main Entry: combination
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: alliance, association
Synonyms: affiliation, bloc, cabal, cahoots, camarilla, cartel, circle, clique, club, coadunation, coalition, combine, compound, confederacy, confederation, conjunction, connection, consolidation, consortium, conspiracy, coterie, faction, federation, gang, guild, hookup, mafia, melding, mergence, merger, merging, partnership, party, pool, ring, set, syndicate, tie-up, trust, unification, union
Antonyms: dissolution, disunion, separation, severance
Main Entry: organized crime
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: coordinated criminal organization
Synonyms: Black Hand, Cosa Nostra, Mafia, gangland, mob, organized crime family, the Syndicate, the mob, the rackets, the syndicate, the underworld
Main Entry: ring
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: group participating together
Synonyms: Mafia, association, band, bloc, bunch, cabal, camp, cartel, cell, circle, clan, clique, coalition, combination, combine, corner, coterie, crew, crowd, faction, gang, in-group, junta, junto, knot, mob, monopoly, organization, outfit, party, pool, push, racket, syndicate, troop, troupe, trust
Main Entry: underworld
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: criminal activity, element
Synonyms: Cosa Nostra, Mafia, abyss, criminals, felonry, gangland, gangsters, mob*, organized crime, racket, riffraff, syndicate
Main Entry: Cosa Nostra
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: the Mafia
Synonyms: Black Hand, Mafia, Syndicate, gangdom, gangland, mob, organized crime, organized crime family, rackets, the Syndicate, the mob, the underworld, underworld
Related Words
Main Entry: circle
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
annular, bead-like, bell-shaped, belted, bulbiform, bulbous, campaniform, campaniliform, campanulate, circinate, circular, circumrotatory, columnar, conic, conical, coniform, cycloidal, cyclostomate, cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid, egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, full-orbed, fungiform, gibbous, gimmal, globated, globose, globous, globular, guttiform, gyratory, knobbed, lobed, lumbriciform, molendinaceous, moniliform, obconic, obrotund, ooid, orbicular, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, ovopyriform, pear-shaped, penannular, peristrephic, pyriform, ringed, rotary, rotating, rotatory, rotund, round, rounded, spherical, spheroidal, stobic, strobic, strombuliform, trochiform, trochilic, vertiginous, vortical, vorticose
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Combination.
Category: 3. CONJUNCTIVE QUANTITY
Synonyms:
-nouns
combination; mixture; junction; union, unification, synthesis, incorporation, amalgamation, embodiment, coalescence, crasis, fusion, blending, absorption, centralization., alloy, compound, amalgam, composition, tertiun quid; resultant, impregnation.
-verbs
combine, unite, incorporate, amalgamate, embody, absorb, reembody, blend, merge, fuse, melt into one, consolidate, coalesce, centralize, impregnate; put together, lump together; cement a union, marry.
-adjectives
combined; impregnated with, ingrained; imbued, inoculated.
Antonyms: decomposition
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