What does sage mean?

Definitions for sage
seɪdʒsage

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sagenoun

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

  2. sagenoun

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

  3. sage, salviaadjective

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

  4. sageadjective

    having wisdom that comes with age and experience

  5. sage, sage-greenadjective

    of the grey-green color of sage leaves

Wiktionary

  1. sageverb

    The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply

  2. sageinterjection

    Word used in the email field of imageboards to prevent a bump of the post. Used as an option rather than a word in some imageboard software

  3. Etymology: From sauge, from Latin salvia, from salvus (healthy), see safe.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. SAGEadjective

    Wise; grave; prudent.

    Etymology: sage, Fr. saggio, Ital.

    Tired limbs to rest,
    O matron sage, quoth she, I hither came. Fairy Queen.

    Vane, young in years, but in sage councils old,
    Than whom a better senator ne’er held
    The helm of Rome. John Milton.

    Can you expect that she should be so sage
    To rule her blood, and you not rule your rage. Edmund Waller.

  2. Sagenoun

    A plant of which the school of Salernum thought so highly, that they left this verse:

    Etymology: sauge, French; salvia, Latin.

    Cur moriatur homo cui salvia crescit in horto.

    It hath a labiated flower, consisting of one leaf, whose upper lip is sometimes arched, and sometimes hooked; but the under lip or beard is divided into three parts, bunching out, and not hollowed at the clare: out of the flower-cup rises the pointal, attended, as it were, by four embryoes, which afterward become so many seeds, which are roundish, shut up in an husk, which before was the flower-cup: to which may be added, that the stamina do somewhat resemble the os hyoides. Philip Miller.

    By the colour, figure, taste, and smell, we have as clear ideas of sage and hemlock, as we have of a circle. John Locke.

    Marbled with sage the hard’ning cheese she press’d. John Gay.

  3. Sagenoun

    A philosopher; a man of gravity and wisdom.

    Etymology: from the adjective.

    Though you profess
    Yourselves such sages; yet know I no less,
    Nor am to you inferior. George Sandys.

    At his birth a star proclaims him come,
    And guides the eastern sages, who enquire
    His place, to offer incense, myrrh, and gold. John Milton.

    For so the holy sages once did sing,
    That he our deadly forfeit should release,
    And with his father work us a perpetual peace. John Milton.

    Groves, where immortal sages taught,
    Where heav’nly visions Plato fir’d. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. sage

    A sage is a person, usually elderly, who is deeply knowledgeable or profoundly wise, often characterized by their good judgment, insight, and comprehension. Sage can also refer to a type of plant with grayish-green leaves, often used as a culinary herb. Additionally, it can relate to a specific practice in spiritual rituals, such as 'sage smudging', where dried sage is burned for cleansing energy.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sagenoun

    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

  2. Sagenoun

    the sagebrush

  3. Sage

    having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious

  4. Sage

    proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose

  5. Sage

    grave; serious; solemn

  6. Sagenoun

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

  7. Etymology: [OE. sauge, F. sauge, L. salvia, from salvus saved, in allusion to its reputed healing virtues. See Safe.]

Wikidata

  1. Sage

    Salvia is the largest genus of plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, with approximately 700–900 species of shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annuals. It is one of several genera commonly referred to as sage. The genus is distributed throughout the Old World and the Americas, with three distinct regions of diversity: Central and South America; Central Asia and Mediterranean; Eastern Asia.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sage

    sāj, 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. [O. Fr. sauge (It. salvia)—L. salviasalvus, safe.]

  2. Sage

    sāj, 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). [Fr. sage (It. saggio, savio), from a L. sapius (seen in ne-sapius), wise—sapĕre, to be wise.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SAGE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sage is ranked #3222 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Sage surname appeared 11,207 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Sage.

    89.4% or 10,021 total occurrences were White.
    3.2% or 362 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    3% or 338 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.9% or 220 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.5% or 171 total occurrences were Black.
    0.8% or 95 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sage in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of sage in a Sentence

  1. Rayshard Brooks ':

    How nice is it is to be sage the Gemini whacked!

  2. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu:

    The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

  3. Publilius Syrus:

    Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

  4. Hazrat Inayat Khan:

    The sage said, 'The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love.' That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them you just forget.

  5. Ultrarunner Jason Romero:

    Sage and I will go out for training runs and he will be the eyes of the operation, i can’t see the walk signs at intersections, so he will stop me when we can’t go or let me know there is a curb coming up.

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