Definitions for Mandarin

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Mandarin man·da·rin

Spelling: [man-duh-rin]

IPA: /ˈmæn də rɪn/

Mandarin is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in Mandarin (aadimnnr).

Definitions for Mandarin

noun

1. (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
2. (initial capital letter) the standard Chinese language.
3. (initial capital letter) a northern Chinese dialect, especially as spoken in and around Beijing.
4. a small, spiny citrus tree, Citrus reticulata, native to China, bearing lance-shaped leaves and flattish, orange-yellow to deep-orange loose-skinned fruit, some varieties of which are called tangerines.
5. any of several plants belonging to the genus Disporum or Streptopus, of the lily family, as S. roseus (rose mandarin) or D. lanuginosum (yellow mandarin) having drooping flowers and red berries.
6. an influential or powerful government official or bureaucrat.
7. a member of an elite or powerful group or class, as in intellectual or cultural milieus:

adjective

1. of or relating to a mandarin or mandarins.
2. elegantly refined, as in language or taste.

Origin of Mandarin

1580-90; Portuguese mandarim, alteration (by association with mandar to order) of Malay məntəri Hindi mantrī, Sanskrit mantrin councilor

Examples for Mandarin

But there is one important thing they do not know, which is what it is like to be anyone except a mandarin.

Ireland is a kind of laboratory for the culture of the mandarin bacillus.

The mandarin of this district is my friend, and I can make it all right.

I'll bet you'd be flirting with some mandarin or pasha before you got through.'

And next a Chinese mandarin, who nods his head at Annie and myself.

Perhaps, for being such a darin' man, he may be made a mandarin!

To the extent that the "Tiger Mom" phenomenon is actually real, it's arguably the cultural legacy of the mandarin system.

In the original Marvel comic books, the mandarin was born and bred in China, a descendant of Genghis Khan no less.

Sandwiched in between was a “Potbelly Punch” of SoCal Fruit Punch and mandarin vodka.

And thus the separation of the mandarin class grows ever more complete.