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MAFIOSO
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Irregular inflected form: mafiosi
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States
Classified under:
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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