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Mafia vs crime syndicate

crime syndicate vs Mafia

Mafia and crime syndicate both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
Mafia Yes No No No
crime syndicate Yes No No No
As nouns, crime syndicate is a hypernym of Mafia; that is, crime syndicate is a word with a broader meaning than Mafia:
  • Mafia: a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia
  • crime syndicate: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
Other hypernyms of Mafia include family, mob, syndicate.
Mafia (noun) crime syndicate (noun)
a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century
Difference between Mafia and crime syndicate

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