Definitions for mandarin
Overview of noun mandarin
The noun mandarin has 6 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. mandarin, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata
(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)
2. mandarin
(a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group)
3. mandarin
(any high government official or bureaucrat)
4. mandarin
(a high public official of imperial China)
5. mandarin, mandarin orange
(a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China)
6. Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect
(the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China)
