mafia   (TTS Sound)

The noun mafia has 3 senses

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


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


• mafia, maffia -- (any tightly knit group of trusted associates)