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Word: mandarin (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, elaborate.
  • Pertaining to mandarins.

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Noun:

  • A mandarin duck.
  • A mandarin orange; a small, sweet citrus fruit.
  • A mandarin orange tree.
  • An orange colour.
  • A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
  • A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles, often used pejoratively.
  • British A senior civil servant.
  • historical A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.

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