mandarin   (TTS Sound)

The noun mandarin has 6 senses

• mandarin, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata -- (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 -- (a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group)


• mandarin -- (any high government official or bureaucrat)


• mandarin -- (a high public official of imperial China)


• mandarin, mandarin orange -- (a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China)


• Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect -- (the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China)