Definizione monolingua

mandarin

mandarin (plural mandarins)

1. (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
2. A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
3. A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles, often used pejoratively.
4. A mandarin duck.
5. (informal, UK) A senior civil servant.

mandarin (comparative more mandarin, superlative most mandarin)

1. Pertaining to mandarins.
2. Deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, elaborate.
   • 2007: Though alert to riddles strong roots in vernacular narrative, Cooks tastes are mandarin, and she gives a loving account of Wallace Stevenss meditations on the life of poetic images and simile — Marina Warner, ‘Doubly Damned’, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 26

Definizione dizionario mandarin

	mandarino
	Chinese Imperial bureaucrat
	The fruit of a small citrus tree (Citrus reticulata), resembling the orange.

Altri significati:

informal: senior civil servant

An orange colour.

(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.

(informal, UK) A senior civil servant.

A mandarin orange tree.

elitist bureaucrat

Pertaining to mandarins.

tree

Deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, elaborate.

A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.

A mandarin orange; a small, sweet citrus fruit.

fruit

A mandarin duck.

A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles, often used pejoratively.