Definitions for Sage

Sage sage

Spelling: [seyj]
IPA: /seɪdʒ/

Sage is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Sage (aegs).

Definitions for Sage

noun

  1. a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
  2. someone venerated for the possession of wisdom, judgment, and experience.
  3. any plant or shrub belonging to the genus Salvia, of the mint family.
  4. an herb, Salvia officinalis, whose grayish-green leaves are used in medicine and for seasoning in cookery.
  5. the leaves themselves.
  6. sagebrush.
  7. Russell, 1816–1906, U.S. financier.
  8. Alain René [a-lan ruh-ney] /aˈlɛ̃ rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1668–1747, French novelist and dramatist.

adjective

  1. wise, judicious, or prudent:

Origin of Sage

1250-1300; Middle English (noun and adj.) Old French Late Latin sapidus wise, tasteful (Latin: tasty), equivalent to sap(ere) to know, be wise, orig. to taste (see sap

Examples for Sage

Why in this world are you talking about stones and sage and greasewood?

She seemed born, not only to captivate the giddy, but to turn the heads of the sage.

"I am satisfied with the pursuit of wisdom, not with the fame of it," replied the sage.

He was still chuckling when he spoke, sage from much experience of ocean travel.

It was one of the first organizations in the building, along with the Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (sage).

In any case, it was Solzhenitsyn who explained this to me and not some sage I met in the prison yard.

You may think that your sage counsels restrained her, but they did not; it was that she loved some one else.

Will a sage coach like John Calipari be able to outwit a relative newcomer in Kevin Ollie, he of a mere two seasons on the job?

From here on, he was a philosopher, a sage, and his interviews were stuffed full of dicta, parables and eternal paradoxes.

sage and sausage patty came next, served between cumin scented Buttermilk biscuits and smothered in a black pepper country gravy.

Word Value for Sage
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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