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 Definitions of mandarin  [ˈmæn də rɪn]  

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Definition of 'mandarin' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) mandarin
(in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials.

2.  mandarin
(cap.)

3.  mandarin
a more or less uniform spoken form of the Chinese language based loosely on the dialect of Beijing and used by officials in late imperial China.

4.  mandarin
the group of related Chinese dialects, including Mandarin and the modern standard language, spoken in SW, central, and N China and in Manchuria.

5.  mandarin
a small spiny Chinese citrus tree, Citrus reticulata, bearing flattish orange-yellow to deep orange loose-skinned fruit.

6.  mandarin
this fruit, some hybrid varieties of which are called tangerines.

7.  mandarin
an influential or powerful government official or bureaucrat.

8.  mandarin
a member of an elite or powerful group or class.

9. (adj.) mandarin
of or pertaining to a mandarin or mandarins.

10.  mandarin
elegantly refined, as in language or taste.

Etymology:  (1580–90; < Pg mandarim, < Malay m&schwa;nt&schwa;ri&indirdesc; Skt mantrin councilor)

Definition of 'mandarin' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) 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. (noun) mandarin
a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group

3. (noun) mandarin
any high government official or bureaucrat

4. (noun) mandarin
a high public official of imperial China

5. (noun) mandarin, mandarin orange
a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China

6. (noun) Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect
the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China


Definition of 'mandarin' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) mandarin
a Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam

2. (noun) mandarin
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 --


Definitions of 'mandarin' The Nuttall Encyclopedia 

1.  mandarin
the name given by foreigners, derived from the Portuguese, signifying to "command," to Chinese official functionaries, of which there are some nine orders, distinguished by the buttons on their caps, and they are appointed chiefly for their possession of the requisite qualifications for the office they aspire to.


Translation of 'mandarin' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (alsomandarin orange) a type of small orange.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: mandaryn, naartjie Arabic flag Arabic: فاكِهَة المَندَرين، يوسِف Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: мандарина
Brazilian flag Brazilian: tangerina Czech flag Czech: mandarinka German flag German: die Mandarine
Danish flag Danish: mandarin Greek flag Greek: μανταρίνι Spanish flag Spanish: mandarina
Estonian flag Estonian: mandariin Farsi flag Farsi: نارنگی Finnish flag Finnish: mandariini
French flag French: mandarine Hebrew flag Hebrew: מַנדָרִינָה Hindi flag Hindi: चीनी नारंगी
Croatian flag Croatian: mandarina Hungarian flag Hungarian: mandarin Indonesian flag Indonesian: jeruk
Icelandic flag Icelandic: mandarína Italian flag Italian: mandarino Japanese flag Japanese: みかん
Korean flag Korean: (중국종) 귤의 일종 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: mandarinas Latvian flag Latvian: mandarīns (auglis)
Malay flag Malay: limau mandarin Dutch flag Dutch: mandarijn Norwegian flag Norwegian: mandarin
Polish flag Polish: mandarynka Persian flag Persian: ،نوع نارنج نارنگی Pashto flag Pashto: يو ډول نارنج
Portuguese flag Portuguese: tangerina Romanian flag Romanian: mandarină Russian flag Russian: мандарин
Slovak flag Slovak: mandarínka Slovenian flag Slovenian: mandarina Serbian flag Serbian: mandarina
Swedish flag Swedish: mandarin Thai flag Thai: ส้มจีน Turkish flag Turkish: mandalina
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 橘子 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: мандарин Urdu flag Urdu: ایک قسم کا چھوٹا سنترا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: quả quít Chinese flag Chinese: 桔子,中国柑桔

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