cosa nostra

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	crime syndicate, family, mob, syndicate,
definition	:	a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities (noun.group)

member holonym	:	mafioso,
definition	:	a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States (noun.person)

domain member category	:	omerta,
definition	:	a code of silence practiced by the Mafia; a refusal to give evidence to the police about criminal activities (noun.communication)