Mandarin (noun)
A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
Mandarin (noun)
A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
Mandarin (noun)
A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
Mandarin (noun)
A mandarin duck.
Mandarin (noun)
A senior civil servant.
Mandarin (noun)
A mandarin orange; a small, sweet citrus fruit.
Mandarin (noun)
A mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata.
Mandarin (noun)
An orange colour.
Mandarin (adjective)
Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist. from 20th c.
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