Definition of "Mandarin" :

noun: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

noun: a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China

noun: a high public official of imperial China

noun: any high government official or bureaucrat

noun: a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group

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