mandarin

man·da·rin  (mnd-rn)

n.

1. A member of any of the nine ranks of high public officials in the Chinese Empire.

2. A high government official or bureaucrat.

3. A member of an elite group, especially a person having influence or high status in intellectual or cultural circles.

4. Mandarin The official national standard spoken language of China, which is based on the principal dialect spoken in and around Beijing. Also called Guoyu, Putonghua.

5. A mandarin orange.

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a mandarin.

2. Marked by elaborate and refined language or literary style.

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[From Spanish mandarín, from Portuguese mandarim, from Malay menteri, from Sanskrit mantr, mantrin-, counselor, from mantra, counsel; see men-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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mandarin

Noun

1. (in the Chinese Empire) a member of a senior grade of the bureaucracy

2. a high-ranking official with extensive powers

3. a person of standing and influence, esp. in literary or intellectual circles

4. a small citrus fruit resembling the tangerine [Sanskrit mantrin counsellor]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	mandarin - 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 Citrus reticulata, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree mandarin orange, mandarin - a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China genus Citrus - orange; lemon; lime; etc. citrus tree, citrus - any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds tangerine, tangerine tree - a variety of mandarin orange clementine, clementine tree - a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa satsuma, satsuma tree - a variety of mandarin orange
	2.	mandarin - a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group elitist - someone who believes in rule by an elite group
	3.	mandarin - any high government official or bureaucrat functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office
	4.	mandarin - a high public official of imperial China Chinese - a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
	5.	mandarin - a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China mandarin orange citrous fruit, citrus, citrus fruit - any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions clementine - a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds satsuma - medium-sized largely seedless mandarin orange with thin smooth skin tangerine - any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa Citrus reticulata, mandarin, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree - 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
	6.	Mandarin - the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China Beijing dialect, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect Chinese - any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system

Translations

mandarin [ˈmændərɪn] n (also: mandarin orange) → mandarina;

(person) → mandarín m

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mandarin [ˈmændərɪn] n (also: mandarin orange) → mandarine f (= person); mandarin m

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mandarin [ˈmændərɪn] n (also: mandarin orange) → Mandarine f;

(official) (Chinese) → Mandarin m: (gen) → Funktionär m

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mandarin [ˈmændərɪn] n (person, fruit) → mandarino