Definitions for camorras

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camorras Ca·mor·ra

Spelling: [kuh-mawr-uh, -mor-uh

IPA: /kəˈmɔr ə, -ˈmɒr ə; Italian kɑˈmɔr rɑ/

Camorras is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 219 anagrams from letters in camorras (aacmorrs).

Definitions for camorras

noun

1. a secret society of Naples, Italy, first publicly known about 1820, that developed into a powerful political organization and was later associated with blackmail, robbery, etc., until its destruction in 1911.
2. (lowercase) any similar society or group.

Origin of camorras

1860-65; Italian Spanish: dispute, quarrel (of uncertain origin)

Examples for camorras

But do you think, Judge Hoyt, that the Camorra is such a desperate menace?

This is not the case with the Camorra, the real Italian mob based in Naples, Italy, and the subject of Gomorra.

Ah, on the contrary—here he lapsed into a tense voice—they hated the Camorra.

The Camorra had eyes and ears in every vicolo and every cellar.

They agreed that the Camorra had great capabilities, if one only could use them.

There he was initiated in the Camorra, exercised by the lads clandestinely.

The second is Luciano Aviello, a Camorra mobster who says his brother is the real assassin.

But what is to be said about my friend, the facchino, and the Maffia and the Camorra?

We have just been received by the Camorra and all must be careful.

Her Camorra, too, was open, and in her girdle there were gems for all to see.