Definitions for mandarins

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mandarins man·da·rin

Spelling: [man-duh-rin]

IPA: /ˈmæn də rɪn/

Mandarins is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 412 anagrams from letters in mandarins (aadimnnrs).

Definitions for mandarins

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:
8. (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.
9. (initial capital letter) the standard Chinese language.
10. (initial capital letter) a northern Chinese dialect, especially as spoken in and around Beijing.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. an influential or powerful government official or bureaucrat.
14. 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.
3. of or relating to a mandarin or mandarins.
4. elegantly refined, as in language or taste.

Origin of mandarins

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

Examples for mandarins

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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