cosa nostra

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsMafiaMaffia

   Broadersyndicate

Questions about cosa nostra

What does cosa nostra mean?

cosa nostra means "a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia".

What is another word for cosa nostra?

Close synonyms include Mafia, Maffia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cosa nostra a common word?

cosa nostra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.