Cosa Nostra

Examples

• All

• What would happen to you... if some of your Cosa Nostra confederates... found you talking publicly about their organization?

  Ruby (1992)

• Cosa Nostra is not unpatriotic, Senator.

  Ruby (1992)

• Your club is part of Cosa Nostra?

  Ruby (1992)

• Just Cosa Nostra... which translated means, "Our Thing," something like that.

  Ruby (1992)

• That's what Cosa Nostra is.

  Ruby (1992)

• Santos told me to say that he and the Cosa Nostra got Kennedy elected... and what was he doing turning on him now?

  Ruby (1992)

• What does the Cosa Nostra have to do with the Castro regime in Cuba?

  Ruby (1992)

• Various Italian-American organizations brought intense public pressure against the U.S. Department of Justice, the New York Times, and other media to discontinue references to the Cosa Nostra and the Mafia.

  Academic text (1992)

• In 48 hours, the grand jury shuts down a three-year investigation... into the Chicago branch of La Cosa Nostra, of which Antonio Serrano is the boss.

  Rapid Fire (1992)

• The FBI has been working hard to dismantle the influence of Cosa Nostra in organized crime.

Synonyms

M

Mafia

vsCosa Nostra

130 4.4

A secret group that commits crimes and controls illegal businesses

is a US criminal group organized into families and linked to Sicilian groups

S

syndicate

vsCosa Nostra

34 7.3

A group of people who run illegal businesses together

is a US criminal group organized into families and connected with Sicilian groups

C

crime syndicate

vsCosa Nostra

8 4.5

An organized group of criminals who work together to do illegal things

is a specific US group structured into families and tied to Sicilian groups

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology