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Mandarin   /mˈændərən/   Listen
noun
Mandarin  n.  
1.
A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
2.
Hence: A powerful government official or bureaucrat, especially one who is pedantic and has a strong sense of his own importance and privelege.
3.
Hence: A member of an influential, powerful or elite group, espcially within artistic or intellectual circles; used especially of elder members who are traditionalist or conservative about their specialties.
4.
The form of the Chinese language spoken by members of the Chinese Imperial Court an officials of the empire.
5.
Any of several closely related dialects of the Chinese language spoken by a mojority of the population of China, the standard variety of which is spoken in the region around Beijing.
6.
(Bot.) A small flattish reddish-orange loose-skinned orange, with an easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus reticulata formerly Citrus nobilis); called also mandarin orange and tangerine.
Mandarin language, the spoken or colloquial language of educated people in China.
Mandarin yellow (Chem.), an artificial aniline dyestuff used for coloring silk and wool, and regarded as a complex derivative of quinoline.






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"Mandarin" Quotes from Famous Books



... It would appear that the popular mind became possessed with the idea that this contest, extending to Chinese waters, would neutralize the Christian influence and power, and that the time was coming when the superstitious masses might expel all foreigners and restore mandarin influence. Anticipating trouble from this cause, I invited France and North Germany to make an authorized suspension of hostilities in the East (where they were temporarily suspended by act of the commanders), and to act together for the future protection in China ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... made another afternoon call on the Beaubien a few days later. That lady, fresh from her bath, scented, powdered, and charming in a loose, flowing Mandarin ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... of them agreed to that afterward—but it was Crailey who answered, while Tom could only stare, and stand wagging his head at the lovely phantom, like a Mandarin on ...
— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington

... grade, under the direction of the indolent M. Tavernier, always busy polishing his nails, like a Chinese mandarin, the child had for a professor in the eighth grade Pere Montandeuil, a poor fellow stupefied by thirty years of teaching, who secretly employed all his spare hours in composing five-act tragedies, and who, by dint of carrying ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... bowed and said, in spite of a scowl from Polly, "I'm very glad you liked it." But Dr. Ochterlony did not observe, and plunged into the tide of explanation; Dennis listened like a prime-minister, and bowing like a mandarin, which is, I suppose, the same thing. Polly declared it was just like Haliburton's Latin conversation with the Hungarian minister, of which he is very fond of telling. "Quaene sit historia Reformationis in Ungaria?" quoth Haliburton, after ...
— The Man Without a Country and Other Tales • Edward E. Hale


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