Sage

[seɪdʒ] or [sedʒ]

Definition

(noun.) aromatic fresh or dried grey-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.

(adj.) of the grey-green color of sage leaves .

(adj.) having wisdom that comes with age and experience .

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Definition

(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.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Wise, sagacious, sapient, discerning, shrewd, acute, intelligent, sensible.[2]. Prudent, grave, judicious, oracular, venerable.

Editor: Trudy

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Philosopher, savant, literate

ANT:Fool, Imbecile, Colt, blockhead

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Definition

adj. discriminating discerning wise: well judged.—n. a wise man: a man of gravity and wisdom.—adv. Sage′ly.—n. Sage′ness.—Seven sages or wise men (see Seven).

n. any plant of genus Salvia of the mint family esp. Common or Garden Sage used for flavouring meats.—ns. Sage′-app′le a gall formed on a species of sage; Sage′-bread bread baked from dough mixed with a strong infusion of sage in milk; Sage′-brush a collective name of various shrubby species of Artemisia in the western United States; Sage′-cock -grouse a large North American grouse; Sage′-green a gray slightly mixed with pure green; Sage′-rabb′it a small hare or rabbit abounding in North America; Sage′-rose a plant of the genus Cistus: an evergreen shrub of tropical America; Sage′-sparr′ow a fringilline bird characteristic of the sage-brush of North America; Sage′-thresh′er the mountain mocking-bird of west North America; Sage′-will′ow a dwarf American willow.—adj. Sā′gy full of or seasoned with sage.—Apple-bearing sage a native of southern Europe with large reddish or purple bracts and bearing on its branches large gall-nuts; Meadow Sage or Meadow clary a common ornament of meadows in the south of England with bluish-purple flowers; Oil of sage an essential oil yielded by the sage once much used in liniments against rheumatism.

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