See Also: mandarin(medicine)
mandarin(dictionary)
Fan's Mandarin(tourism)
Mandarin(encyclopedia)
mandarin(2)(dictionary)
mandarin(1)(dictionary)
Mandarin(tourism)
MANDARIN ENT(finance)
Mandarin Airlines(tourism)
Silk Mandarin(tourism)

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[Sense: 1; Date: 1700-1800; Language: French; Origin: mandarine, from Spanish mandarina, probably from mandarin ' MANDARIN3'; perhaps because mandarins wore orange-colored clothes.]
[Sense: 2-3; Date: 1500-1600; Language: Portuguese; Origin: mandarim, from Malay menteri, from Sanskrit mantrin 'adviser', from mantra; MANTRA]
also mandarin orange
a kind of small orange with skin that is easy to remove
BrE an important government official who people think has too much power
::Civil Service mandarins
an important government official in the former Chinese empire