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MAFIOSO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: mafiosi   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mafioso" is a kind of...):

criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)

Holonyms ("mafioso" is a member of...):

Cosa Nostra; Maffia; Mafia (a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the Sicilian Mafia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mafioso" is a kind of...):

Sicilian (a resident of Sicily)

Holonyms ("mafioso" is a member of...):

Maffia; Mafia; Sicilian Mafia (a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century)

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