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say it: MAN-dur-uhn
mandarin is a noun meaning "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". It carries 6 recorded senses.
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
a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
any high government official or bureaucrat
a high public official of imperial China
a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mandarin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.