2 meanings
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1 —as in:
sage advice
Definition
profound wisdom; or one known for being wise- Can you offer some sage advice?
sage = wise
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- You can read her sage relationship advice at her blog.
- Some call Warren Buffett the "Sage of Omaha".
- That's the teaching of our sages.Elie Wiesel -- Night
- great thinkers and sagesC.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew
- Everybody agreed, sagely.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- "Nice-lookin' bruise you got there, kid."
I touched my cheek gingerly. "Really?"
Two-Bit nodded sagely. "Nice cut, too."S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders - He nodded sagely.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- And no one, especially not the idiotic sages around here, is capable of understanding us, since we're more sensitive and much more advanced in our thinking than any of them ever suspect!Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Fanny believed there was scarcely a second feeling in common between them; and she may be forgiven by older sages for looking on the chance of Miss Crawford's future improvement as nearly desperate, for thinking that if Edmund's influence in this season of love had already done so little in clearing her judgment, and regulating her notions, his worth would be finally wasted on her even in years of matrimony.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
sage = wise
sage = someone known for being wise
sages = people known for being wise
sages = people known for being wise
sagely = wisely
sagely = like a wise person with experience
sagely = like a wise person with experience
sages = wise people
sages = wise people
2 —as in:
the growing sage
Definition
a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice and another commonly called sagebrushor: the color of such plants (a shade of green with some hint of gray)
- He served leg of lamb with sage and thyme.
sage = a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice and another commonly called sagebrush
or: the color of such plants (a shade of green with some hint of gray)
or: the color of such plants (a shade of green with some hint of gray)
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- Sage and thyme, and mint and two onions, and some parsley.Potter, Beatrix -- The Original Peter Rabbit Books
- I liked to see them there, in their bowls and bottles: sage and rose, horehound, chicory, wild laurel, the moly in its stoppered glass.Madeline Miller -- Circe
- Surrounded by chollas, bur sage, and the comical scurrying of collared lizards, McCandless pitched his tent in the puny shade of a tamarisk and basked in his newfound freedom.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- You're supposed to use sage to clear out negative energy before you use sweet grass.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
- The heavy smell of sage slipped down the hill.John Steinbeck -- The Red Pony
- I'd mash the beans with roasted garlic and sage and serve them on toasted rounds of homemade sourdough bread.Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma
- Sea-foam green and sage, that's what you should look for, classic and feminine.Laurie Halse Anderson -- Speak
- ...a great variety of herb and root odors were almost hidden by the smell of mountain sage and something as ordinary as curry powder.Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony
- A horseman showed dark on the sky-line, then merged into the color of the sage.Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage
sage = a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice
sage = a type of plant
sage = a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice and another commonly called sagebrush
sage = a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice and another commonly called sagebrush
sage = a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice
sage = the color of various green plants
sage = any of various plants including one used as a popular spice and another that is a type of brush with a strong scent
sage = a type of plant