Mandarin
['mænd(ə)rɪn] or ['mændərɪn]
Definition
(noun.) the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China.
(noun.) a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China.
(noun.) a high public official of imperial China.
(noun.) any high government official or bureaucrat.
(noun.) a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group.
(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.
Typist: Ted--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
(n.) A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine --.
Editor: Vlad
Definition
n. a European name for a Chinese official civil or military: a small kind of orange thought to be of Chinese origin.—-n. Mandarī′nate.
Edited by Hardy
Examples
- A mandarin's education in China is, mainly, learning to read. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was gone, but Beth had remembered the little household ceremony, and there she was, nodding away at them like a rosyfaced mandarin. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The emperors and dynasties might come and go; the mandarins, the examinations, the classics, and the traditions and habitual life remained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In China it created a special reading-class, the mandarins, who were also the ruling and official class. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Julius