mandarin

Speech parts

1. mandarin - Noun

2. mandarin - Adjective

Meaning

A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine --.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Mandarin Chinese mandarin orange tangerine official satsuma bureaucrat civil servant putonghua Guoyu Beijing dialect Standard Mandarin Citrus reticulata mandarin orange tree Mandarin dialect baron
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Antonyms

letter nobody loser commoner myrmidon nonentity
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Hypernyms

chinese official fruit citrus functionary citrus fruit

Hyponyms

clementine tangerine satsuma clementine tree satsuma tree tangerine tree

Phrases with the word

rose mandarin wuhan mandarin mandarin juice Mandarin rat snake golden mandarin fish mandarin tree

Anagrams

Mirandan

Examples

Far from participating in a current literary scene agog with vogue and hyperbole, the LRB has kept what is widely perceived as a mandarin aloofness from it. Complicity with the institutions of literature, whether patrons or advertisers, is scarcely a charge that can be made against the paper. Perry Anderson

I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence. Orson Welles

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. Quentin Tarantino

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin. Katie Leung

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. Mira Sorvino

The Mandarin style at its best yields the richest and most complete expression of the English language. Cyril Connolly

Close letter words and terms

mandarah mandaratoxin Mandard Mandarin Chinese mandarin collar Mandarin dialect