plural of mandarin

A small, sweet citrus fruit. / A tree of the species Citrus reticulata. / (color) An orange colour.

(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire. / A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat. / (often derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.

Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.

plural of mandarine

Standard Mandarin, an official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages in Singapore; Putonghua, Guoyu or Huayu.

Alternative spelling of mandarin (“citrus fruit”)

The process of making something or someone Mandarin.

(transitive) To make something or someone Mandarin.

plural of mandarinate