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SAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Aromatic fresh or dried grey-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("sage" is a kind of...):
herb (aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sage"):
clary sage (fresh leaves used in omelets and fritters and with lamb)
Holonyms ("sage" is a part of...):
common sage; ramona; Salvia officinalis (shrubby plant with aromatic greyish-green leaves used as a cooking herb)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sage" is a kind of...):
mentor; wise man (a wise and trusted guide and advisor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sage"):
Hakham (a Hebrew title of respect for a wise and highly educated man)
mahatma ((Hinduism) term of respect for a brahmin sage)
Instance hyponyms:
Balthasar; Balthazar; Caspar; Gaspar ((New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus)
Melchior ((New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus; usually represented as a king of Nubia)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb
Synonyms:
sage; salvia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sage" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sage"):
Salvia verbenaca; vervain sage; wild clary; wild sage (Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena; naturalized in United States)
Mexican mint; Salvia divinorum (an herb from Oaxaca that has a powerful hallucinogenic effect; the active ingredient is salvinorin)
pitcher sage; Salvia spathacea (California erect and sparsely branched perennial)
clary; Salvia sclarea (aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in Great Britain as a potherb and widely as an ornamental)
meadow clary; Salvia pratensis (tall perennial Old World salvia with violet-blue flowers; found in open grasslands)
common sage; ramona; Salvia officinalis (shrubby plant with aromatic greyish-green leaves used as a cooking herb)
cancer weed; cancerweed; Salvia lyrata (sage of eastern United States)
chaparral sage; purple sage; Salvia leucophylla (silvery-leaved California herb with purple flowers)
blue sage; Salvia lancifolia; Salvia reflexa (sage of western North America to Central America having violet-blue flowers; widespread in cultivation)
blue sage; mealy sage; Salvia farinacea (Texas sage having intensely blue flowers)
clary sage; Salvia clarea (stout Mediterranean sage with white or pink or violet flowers; yields oil used as a flavoring and in perfumery)
blue sage; Salvia azurea (blue-flowered sage of dry prairies of the eastern United States)
Holonyms ("sage" is a member of...):
genus Salvia (large genus of shrubs and subshrubs of the mint family varying greatly in habit: sage)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of the grey-green color of sage leaves
Synonyms:
sage; sage-green
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having wisdom that comes with age and experience
Classified under:
Similar:
wise (having or prompted by wisdom or discernment)
Context examples:
In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I have often beheld two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us, who, when they met in the street, would lay down their loads, open their sacks, and hold conversation for an hour together; then put up their implements, help each other to resume their burdens, and take their leave.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Yet perhaps the virtue of those reverend sages was too strict for the corrupt and libertine manners of a court: and we often find by experience, that young men are too opinionated and volatile to be guided by the sober dictates of their seniors.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
