MANDARIN DIALECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mandarin dialect mean? 

• MANDARIN DIALECT (noun)
  The noun MANDARIN DIALECT has 1 sense:

1. the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

  Familiarity information: MANDARIN DIALECT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANDARIN DIALECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Beijing dialect; Mandarin; Mandarin Chinese; Mandarin dialect

Hypernyms ("Mandarin dialect" is a kind of...):

Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)