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mandarinal

mandarinal adjective: pertaining to mandarins or to the system of rule by mandarins.

Adjective

mandarinal (comparative more mandarinal, superlative most mandarinal)

  1. Pertaining to mandarins or to the system of rule by mandarins.
    • Mandarinal Vietnam lasted because the foundations on which it was built remained forever the same.1967, Joseph Buttinger, Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled, page 116
    • Pasquier […] admired and promoted the mandarinal administrative system.2016, Christopher Goscha, The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam, Penguin, published 2017, page 179

Forms of mandarinal

comparativemore mandarinal
superlativemost mandarinal

Origin of mandarinal

From mandarin + -al.

Questions about mandarinal

What does mandarinal mean?
Mandarinal means pertaining to mandarins or to the system of rule by mandarins.
What part of speech is mandarinal?
Mandarinal is an adjective.

Words near mandarinal in the dictionary

  1. mandarin gowns
  2. mandarin orange
  3. mandarin oranges
  4. mandarin square
  5. mandarin squares
  6. mandarinal
  7. mandarinate
  8. mandarinates
  9. mandarindom
  10. mandarine
  11. mandarines

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