mandarin

n. high ranking public official in the Chinese Empire; important government official; member of an influential or elite group or class; mandarin orange, tangerine

n. official spoken language of China; Chinese dialect spoken in and around Beijing

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Noun
1. the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
(synonym) Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect
(hypernym) Chinese

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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 orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata
(hypernym) citrus, citrus tree
(hyponym) tangerine, tangerine tree
(member-holonym) genus Citrus
(part-meronym) mandarin orange
2. a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
(hypernym) elitist
3. any high government official or bureaucrat
(hypernym) official, functionary
4. a high public official of imperial China
(hypernym) Chinese
5. a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose-skinned citrus of China
(synonym) mandarin orange
(hypernym) citrus, citrus fruit, citrous fruit
(hyponym) clementine
(part-holonym) mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata

nm. mandarin, Chinese official (History)

nm. mandarin, high ranking public official in the Chinese Empire; important government official; member of an influential or elite group or class