centurion vs mandarin

centurion

noun
  • An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers. 

  • A player who scores a century. 

  • A pilot in the United States Navy who has performed 100 night landings on an aircraft carrier. 

mandarin

noun
  • A senior civil servant. 

  • A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire. 

  • A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat. 

  • A small, sweet citrus fruit. 

  • A tree of the species Citrus reticulata. 

  • An orange colour. 

  • A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles. 

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

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