Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mandarin

6 senses of mandarin

Sense 1
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)
       => citrus, citrus tree -- (any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds)

Sense 2
mandarin -- (a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group)
       => elitist -- (someone who believes in rule by an elite group)

Sense 3
mandarin -- (any high government official or bureaucrat)
       => official, functionary -- (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Sense 4
mandarin -- (a high public official of imperial China)
       => Chinese -- (a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China)

Sense 5
mandarin, mandarin orange -- (a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China)
       => citrus, citrus fruit, citrous fruit -- (any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions)

Sense 6
Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect -- (the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China)
       => Chinese -- (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)