Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun maffia

3 senses of maffia

Sense 1
Mafia, Maffia, Cosa Nostra -- (a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia)
       => syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, family -- (a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities)

Sense 2
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)
       => organized crime, gangland, gangdom -- (underworld organizations)

Sense 3
mafia, maffia -- (any tightly knit group of trusted associates)
       => clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp -- (an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose)