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2 | 21% | 7 | An official language spoken in 15 | |
3 | 16% | 10 | Official residence of a Roman official | |
Official 15 Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "MANDARIN" which means:
- noun
- • The dialect of chinese spoken in beijing and adopted as the official language for all of china
- • 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
- • A member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- • Any high government official or bureaucrat
- • A high public official of imperial china
- • A somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of china adjective
- • Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist
An example sentence would be:
- • "She spoke fluent mandarin and was able to communicate easily with the locals."
- • "He decided to study mandarin to expand his language skills."
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