Meaning & Definition of Mandarin in English
English⟶
Mandarin
/mændərən/
noun
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
synonym:
- mandarin,
- mandarin orange,
- mandarin orange tree,
- Citrus reticulata
2. A member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
synonym:
- mandarin
3. Any high government official or bureaucrat
synonym:
- mandarin
4. A high public official of imperial china
synonym:
- mandarin
5. A somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of china
synonym:
- mandarin,
- mandarin orange
6. The dialect of chinese spoken in beijing and adopted as the official language for all of china
synonym:
- Mandarin,
- Mandarin Chinese,
- Mandarin dialect,
- Beijing dialect