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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a member of the Sicilian Mafia
2: a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural mafiosi) Etymology: Italian, from Italian dialect (Sicily) mafiusu gallant, swaggerer, perhaps alteration of marfusu scoundrel Date: 1875 a member of the Mafia or a mafia

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. Mafiosi) a member of the Mafia. Etymology: It. (as MAFIA)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Maffioso Maf`fi*o"so, Mafioso Ma`fi*o"so, n.; pl. -si. [It. maffioso.] A member of the maffia.

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