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mafia | o |

As nouns the difference between mafia and o

is that mafia is a crime syndicate while o is a zero used in reading out numbers.

As a proper noun Mafia

is an international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.

As an interjection o is

the English vocative particle, used before a pronoun or the name of a person or persons to mark direct address.

As a particle O is

The English vocative particle, used for direct address.

As an abbreviation O is

the number of overs bowled.

mafia

English

(wikipedia Mafia)

Alternative forms

* Maffia (less common)

Proper noun

  • (specifically) An international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.
  • (by extension) Any organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; .
  • Somehow he managed to upset the Russian Mafia .
  • A party game modelling a conflict between an informed minority (the mafia) and an uninformed majority (the innocents). Each player is secretly assigned a role within one of these teams, and the innocents attempt to identify the mafia members before they are all "murdered".
  • (an entity which attempts to control a specified arena).
  • Synonyms

    * (organization of Sicilian origin) Cosa Nostra, mob * (any organized crime syndicate) mob

    Derived terms

    * mafia * mafia state * Mafioso * Mafiya

    See also

    * Camorra * capo * godfather * goodfella * 'Ndrangheta * * Thuggee * Triad * Yakuza ----

    o

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=n, next=p, image= (wikipedia o)

    Letter

  • The fifteenth letter of the .
  • Symbol

    (Close-mid back rounded vowel) (head)
  • close-mid back rounded vowel
  • See also

    (Latn-script) {{Letter , page=O , NATO=Oscar , Morse=––– , Character=O , Braille=? }} Image:Latin O.png, Capital and lowercase versions of O , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter O.png, Uppercase and lowercase O in Fraktur ----