mandarin
noun
(in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
mandarins
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pluralof mandarin.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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According to an AFP journalist, mandarins in Ashgabat cost $1.90, apples more than $2 and a pack of cigarettes has risen to $3 -- pretty much double what they were.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
This is not what the mandarins of baseball call analytics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Orange is being mixed with mango, mandarins and clementine juice.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
Workers wearing rubber gloves scanned the advancing fruit, grabbing any mandarins with blemishes and dropping them into chutes to be trucked to a juice plant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025
There is a Temple of Confucius, and a Temple of the Emperor, where the mandarins go and pay to his Majesty and to the Sage an homage of divine adoration.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
