mandarin
IPA: mˈændɝʌn
noun
- (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
- A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
- (sometimes derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
- (informal, Britain) A senior civil servant.
- Ellipsis of mandarin orange.:
- A small, sweet citrus fruit.
- A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
- (color) An orange colour.
- Standard Mandarin, an official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages in Singapore; Putonghua, Guoyu or Huayu.
- A branch of the Chinese languages, consisting of many dialects; Guanhua or Beifanghua.
- (ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck. [A colorful perching duck that has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face, Aix galericulata.]
adjective
- Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
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Examples of "mandarin" in Sentences
- Florida and daily life in Mandarin.
- A variety show channel in Mandarin.
- But someone changed it into Mandarin.
- Crab and mandarin oranges are poisonous.
- Fluent in english and capable in mandarin.
- Kinoo is a kind of clementine or mandarin.
- Mandarin is not the same as standard Mandarin.
- Lion City mandarin is firmly in charge of coining slogans.
- But first she called the mandarin who was in charge of the
- She begins another saucy dance, the Mandarin's passions slowly rising.
- He is reputedly the last Mandarin bureaucrat in the Confucian tradition.
- The Avengers managed to thwart the Mandarin's scheme and destroy his satellite.
- While it is known as a mandarin here, it may well be also known as a tangerine.
- The word for mandarin oranges, another popular holiday food, sounds like gold.''
- The mandarin is great, but I understand why they are holding him back for the third film.
- In the days of the Manchu dynasty in China, a mandarin was asked if it did not bother him that there were two standards of justice, one for the rich and powerful, and the other for the poor.
- I’m more willing to believe he’s there because he thinks he can impact our relationship with China for the better … clearly Obama had to stretch far to find someone that was fluent in mandarin and in the culture, and also fluent in business and in executive leadership in american politics, and well didn’t find someone like that among democrats.
- The country's size, its still rudimentary transport infrastructure, its unfamiliar bureaucratic structures and business practices, the importance of family and friendship connections and introductions, the need for fluency in mandarin and often a number of regional dialects all point to the need for an intermediary to ease the frustrations and pre-empt the risk of expensive mistakes.
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