Definitions for maffia

Overview of noun maffia

The noun maffia has 3 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. Mafia, Maffia, Cosa Nostra

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

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)

3. mafia, maffia

(any tightly knit group of trusted associates)