All 4 Uses

sage
in
The Woman Warrior
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Some of the people are saying the Eight sages took you away to teach you magic,
Chpt 2 *

sages = wise people
On a fine spring day the villagers at a place my mother had never visited before would wave peach branches and fans, which are emblems of Chung-li Ch'uan, the chief of the Eight Sages and keeper of the elixir of life.†
Chpt 3
"What's it called, Mother"—the duck voice coming out talking to my own mother—"when a person whispers to the head of the sages —no, not the sages, more like the buddhas but not real people like the buddhas (they've always lived in the sky and never turned into people like the buddhas)-and you whisper to them, the boss of them, and ask for things?†
Chpt 5
"What's it called, Mother"—the duck voice coming out talking to my own mother—"when a person whispers to the head of the sages —no, not the sages, more like the buddhas but not real people like the buddhas (they've always lived in the sky and never turned into people like the buddhas)-and you whisper to them, the boss of them, and ask for things?†
Chpt 5

Definitions:

(1) (sage as in: sage advice)
profound wisdom; or one known for being wise
(2) (sage as in: the growing 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)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)