Usually means: Chinese language; official in China.
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  1. mandarin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Mandarin, mandarin, mandarin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mandarin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mandarin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Mandarin, mandarin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mandarin, mandarin: Wordnik
  7. Mandarin (Chinese), mandarin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Mandarin: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Mandarin, mandarin: Wiktionary
  10. mandarin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mandarin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mandarin: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mandarin, mandarin: Dictionary.com
  14. mandarin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. 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
  16. Mandarin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mandarin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Mandarin: Rhymezone
  19. mandarin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mandarin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mandarin: Free Dictionary
  22. mandarin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Mandarin, mandarin: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. mandarin: Dictionary/thesaurus

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 (
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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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