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mandarin

/ˈmæn.də.ɹɪn/noun3 syllables

Mandarin means: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China.

Synonyms for mandarin6

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

Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect

noun, as in 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

mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata

noun, as in a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China

mandarin orange

What does mandarin mean?6

noun

1

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

2

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

3

a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China

4

a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group

5

any high government official or bureaucrat

6

a high public official of imperial China

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Mandarin in a sentence

  • There's many types of mandarin oranges so it's hard to choose which to get.justpeachy
  • Mandarin is spoken by more people than any other language.CK
  • What's the difference between a tangerine and a mandarin orange?CK
  • The tangerine is generally considered to be a subspecies of mandarin oranges.sangelo
  • The orange is a hybrid between a pomelo and a mandarin.Hybrid
  • Maria peeled a mandarin and divided it into sections.AlanF_US
  • Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world.Hybrid
  • Mandarin only has four tones, while Cantonese has six to nine.espamatics

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of mandarin

as a noun

plural
mandarins