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Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • British:
    • IPA: /ˈmæn.dər.ɪn/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈmæn.dɚ.ɪn/

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
  2. A mandarin orange; a small, sweet citrus fruit.
  3. A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
  4. A mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata.
  5. (often, pejorative) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
  6. An orange colour.
  7. A mandarin duck.
  8. (informal, British) A senior civil servant.

Adjektiv

  1. Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.

Exempel

  • A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone.
  • Though alert to riddles' strong roots in vernacular narrative, Cook's tastes are mandarin, and she gives a loving account of Wallace Stevens's meditations on the life of poetic images and simile […].

Böjningsformer

Pluralmandarins
Komparativmore mandarin
Superlativmost mandarin

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