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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.

sage = wise

Some call Warren Buffett the "Sage of Omaha".

sage = someone known for being wise

That's the teaching of our sages.
Elie Wiesel -- Night

sages = people known for being wise

great thinkers and sages
C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew

sages = people known for being wise

Everybody agreed, sagely.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

sagely = wisely

If you have any sage words of feminine advice.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

sage = wise

Charles Wallace nodded sagely.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

sagely = wisely

  "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

sagely = like a wise person with experience

He nodded sagely.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

sagely = like a wise person with experience

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2 —as in:
the growing sage

Definition

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)

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)

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

sage = a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice

Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits in particular, were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows!
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

sage = a popular spice

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

sage = a type of plant

You're supposed to use sage to clear out negative energy before you use sweet grass.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked

sage = a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice and another commonly called sagebrush

The heavy smell of sage slipped down the hill.
John Steinbeck -- The Red Pony

sage = a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice and another commonly called sagebrush

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

sage = a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice

Sea-foam green and sage, that's what you should look for, classic and feminine.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Speak

sage = the color of various green plants

...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

sage = any of various plants including one used as a popular spice and another that is a type of brush with a strong scent

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