sage

[Sage]

Use the word sage for someone or something wise and judicious. Thanks to the sage advice of your friend, you didn't write your teacher an angry e mail!

...

A suffriticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.

Noun
aromatic fresh or dried gray-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc

Noun
a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom

Noun
any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb

Adjective S.
of the gray-green color of sage leaves

Adjective S.
having wisdom that comes with age and experience

...

n.
A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.

n.
The sagebrush.

superl.
Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.

superl.
Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose.

superl.
Grave; serious; solemn.

n.
A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.

Sage

Sage , n. [OE. sauge, F. sauge, L. salvia, from salvus saved, in allusion to its reputed healing virtues. See Safe.] (Bot.) (a) A suffriticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage. (b) The sagebrush. Meadow sage (Bot.), a blue-flowered species of salvia (S. pratensis) growing in meadows in Europe. -- Sage cheese, cheese flavored with sage, and colored green by the juice of leaves of spanish and other plants which are added to the milk. -- Sage cock (Zo'94l.), the male of the sage grouse; in a more general sense, the specific name of the sage grouse. -- Sage green, of a dull grayish green color, like the leaves of garden sage. -- Sage grouse (Zo'94l.), a very large American grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), native of the dry sagebrush plains of Western North America. Called also cock of the plains. The male is called sage cock, and the female sage hen. -- Sage hare, ∨ Sage rabbit (Zo'94l.), a species of hare (Lepus Nuttalli, ∨ artemisia) which inhabits the regions of Western North America and lives among sagebrush. By recent writers it is considered to be merely a variety of the common cottontail, or wood rabbit. -- Sage hen (Zo'94l.), the female of the sage grouse. Sage sparrow (Zo'94l.), a small sparrow (Amphispiza Belli, var Nevadensis) which inhabits the dry plains of the Rocky Mountain region, living among sagebrush. -- Sage thrasher (Zo'94l.), a singing bird (Oroscoptes montanus) which inhabits the sagebrush plains of Western North America. -- Sage willow (Bot.), a species of willow (Salix tristis) forming a low bush with nearly sessile grayish green leaves.

Sage

Sage , a. [Compar. Sager ; superl. Sagest.] [F., fr. L. sapius (only in nesapius unwise, foolish), fr. sapere to be wise; perhaps akin to E. sap. Cf. Savor, Sapient, Insipid.] 1. Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.

All you sage counselors, hence!

2. Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose.

Commanders, who, cloaking their fear under show of sage advice, counseled the general to retreat.

3. Grave; serious; solemn. [R.] "[Great bards.] in sage and solemn tunes have sung." Milton. Syn. -- Wise; sagacious; sapient; grave; prudent; judicious.

Sage

Sage, n. A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.

At his birth a star, Unseen before in heaven, proclaims him come, And guides the Eastern sages.

A suffriticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.

Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.

A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.

...

Usage Examples

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Misspelled Form

sage, asage, wsage, esage, dsage, xsage, zsage, aage, wage, eage, dage, xage, zage, saage, swage, seage, sdage, sxage, szage, sqage, swage, ssage, szage, sqge, swge, ssge, szge, saqge, sawge, sasge, sazge, safge, satge, sayge, sahge, sabge, savge, safe, sate, saye, sahe, sabe, save, sagfe, sagte, sagye, saghe, sagbe, sagve, sagwe, sag3e, sag4e, sagre, sagse, sagde, sagw, sag3, sag4, sagr, sags, sagd, sagew, sage3, sage4, sager, sages, saged.

Other Usage Examples

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.