noun (n)

• 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(noun.plant)

  Synonym:
  citrus reticulata, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree
  

  source: wordnet30
• a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group(noun.person)

  source: wordnet30
• any high government official or bureaucrat(noun.person)

  source: wordnet30
• a high public official of imperial China(noun.person)

  source: wordnet30
• a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China(noun.food)

  Synonym:
  mandarin orange
  

  source: wordnet30
• the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China(noun.communication)

  Synonym:
  beijing dialect, mandarin chinese, mandarin dialect
  

  source: wordnet30
• A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.(noun)

  source: webster1913