Mafia vs Triad - What's the difference?
mafia | triad |
(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; .
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).
A grouping of three.
(music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.
(electronics) on a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.
A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.
As nouns the difference between mafia and triad
is that mafia is a crime syndicate while triad is a grouping of three.As a proper noun Mafia
is an international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.mafia
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(wikipedia Mafia)Alternative forms
* Maffia (less common)Proper noun
- Somehow he managed to upset the Russian Mafia .
