Definition of Mandarin

Noun: mandarin  man-du-rin

  1. 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
    - mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata
     
  2. A member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
     
  3. Any high government official or bureaucrat
     
  4. A high public official of imperial China
     
  5. A somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
    - mandarin orange
Noun: Mandarin
  1. The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
    - Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect

See also:
Mandara
mandarinate

Anagrams containing the word mandarin

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