Mandarin - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈmændərɪn|
Brit.
|ˈmænd(ə)rɪn|
noun
- shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
- a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- any high government official or bureaucrat
- a high public official of imperial China
- a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
- the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
- a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- any high government official or bureaucrat
- a high public official of imperial China
- a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
- the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
Extra examples
...the officious mandarins in the motor vehicles department refused to let me renew my license without all of the required forms...
Civil Service mandarins
Word forms
noun
singular: mandarin
plural: mandarins
singular: mandarin
plural: mandarins
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