mandarin

Noun

• the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

• a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China

• a high public official of imperial China

• any high government official or bureaucrat

• a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group

• shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Mandarin , Mandarin Chinese , Mandarin dialect , Beijing dialect , mandarin orange , mandarin orange tree , Citrus reticulata