Usually means: Chinese language; official in China.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word Mandarin:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. mandarin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mandarin: Merriam-Webster
  3. Mandarin, mandarin, mandarin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mandarin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mandarin: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Mandarin, mandarin: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mandarin, mandarin: Wordnik
  8. Mandarin (Chinese), mandarin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Mandarin: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Mandarin, mandarin: Wiktionary
  11. mandarin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. mandarin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. mandarin: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. Mandarin, mandarin: Dictionary.com
  15. mandarin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. Mandarin (China), Mandarin (Elegant novel), Mandarin (Jacksonville), Mandarin (bureaucrat), Mandarin (character), Mandarin (comics), Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca), Mandarin (linguistics), Mandarin (novel), Mandarin (official), Mandarin, The Mandarin (novel), The Mandarin (website), The Mandarin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mandarin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mandarin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. Mandarin: Rhymezone
  20. mandarin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mandarin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. mandarin: FreeDictionary.org
  23. mandarin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mandarin: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mandarin (linguistics), The Mandarin (disambiguation), The Mandarin, mandarin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mandarin: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mandarin: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mandarin: Pen Glossary

(Note: See mandarinic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mandarin)

noun:  (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
noun:  A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
noun:  (sometimes derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
noun:  (informal, British) A senior civil servant.
adjective:  Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
noun:  Ellipsis of mandarin orange.:
noun:  A small, sweet citrus fruit.
noun:  A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
noun:  An orange colour.
noun:  Standard Mandarin, an official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages in Singapore; Putonghua, Guoyu or Huayu.
noun:  A branch of the Chinese languages, consisting of many dialects; Guanhua or Beifanghua.
noun:  (ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck. [A colorful perching duck that has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face, Aix galericulata.]

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