n.
1.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
2.a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
3.any high government official or bureaucrat
4.a high public official of imperial China
5.a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose-skinned citrus of China
6.the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
Idiom of the Day
early bird catches the worm
a person who gets up early in the morning has the best chance of success
Our supervisor always goes to work before his colleagues because he knows that the early bird catches the worm.
