mandarins in English

noun

1

the standard literary and official form of Chinese based on the Beijing dialect, spoken by over 730 million people.

Mandarin Chinese

2

an official in any of the nine top grades of the former imperial Chinese civil service.

But civil service mandarins already have their defences prepared if they are called before the inquiry to be headed by Lord Fraser.

3

a small flattish citrus fruit with a loose skin, especially a variety with yellow-orange skin.

Tangerines are actually a type of mandarin orange as are clementines, but here in the US, the names are used interchangeably.

4

the citrus tree that yields the mandarin.

Hugh had a problem with all the leaves falling off his mandarin tree.

noun

mandarin orange

Use "mandarins" in a sentence

1. Kroger Adorbs Easy Peel Seedless Mandarins

2. The Siamese native mandarins massacred the local Englishmen out of frustration.

3. I have no time for milk teeth and mealy-mouthed mandarins.

4. The frightened mandarins agreed to parley, but Le Lieur stalled, awaiting Montigny.

5. The avenue ends with ferocious looking stone generals and solemn looking mandarins of various kinds.

6. He issued laws , renamed administrative units and divided mandarins into two groups – civil and military .

7. Otherwise they will have barely tried life under Maastricht before their mandarins must start haggling again.

8. All of the classified files and the account books showing the money paid by the mandarins.

9. Confucianism was above all, in fact, the expression of a particular caste, the educated class known as mandarins.

10. Synonyms for Apparatchiki include bureaucrats, functionaries, mandarins, administrators, civil servants, ministers, officials, public servants, office-bearers and officers

11. Clementines, Cuties, Halos, Dimples, Suki, Tangerines, Mandarins? The world of single serving, easy to peel citrus can leave one wondering

12. This Copepod guide will be directed towards breeders and keepers of difficult to keep fish such as Mandarins

13. Synonyms for Apparatchiks include bureaucrats, functionaries, mandarins, administrators, civil servants, ministers, officials, public servants, office-bearers and officers

14. BestieS Sweet Satsuma Mandarins are the perfect citrus fruit for kids because they are sweet, seedless, juicy and easy to peel

15. Whitehall mandarins have discreetly voiced hopes that the party leaders will cobble together an agreement rather than face a second election.

16. Some of the finest Mandarins are grown in Nagpur, Amroati and Wardha districts of Maharahatra, and in the Coorg district of Karnataka

17. Some of the finest Mandarins are grown in Nagpur, Amroati and Wardha districts of Maharahatra, and in the Coorg district of Karnataka

18. The oldest known reference to Citruses dates back to roughly 2200 B.C., when tributes of mandarins and pomelos wrapped in ornamental silks were …

19. Peter Thiel Takes Aim at Google’s “Cosseted,” “Incurious,” “Isolated” Mandarins Over Their China Policies The conservative technologist left the utopians of Silicon Valley last year.

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21. The year of tiger in 1158 , mandarin Nguyen Quoc advised King Ly Anh Ton to set a glass box at the royal court so that mandarins and the people could file complaints , denunciations and petitions on paper .