How to pronounce“mandarin”in English
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Definitions of “mandarin”
A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
“LIKE THE MANDARINS of old, the rulers of China live behind high walls. When they emerge, which they rarely do, they travel in cars with rear windows curtained like sedan chairs. They live in the Chung Nan Hai, a walled park adjacent to the Forbidden City from where ancient dynasties ruled the Celestial Empire.”
A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
“The mandarins who are managing this pandemic are fond of speaking of war.”
Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
“A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone.”
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