mandarin (Noun) — Shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia.
mandarin (Noun) — A member of an elite intellectual or cultural group.
mandarin (Noun) — Any high government official or bureaucrat.
mandarin (Noun) — A high public official of imperial China.
mandarin (Noun) — A somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China.
mandarin (Noun) — The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China.