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sage1 nounsage2 adjective sagesage1 /seɪdʒ/ noun  sage1Origin: 1 1300-1400 Old French sauge, from Latin salvia, from salvus; ➔ SAFE12 1300-1400 ➔ SAGE2 - Every last Eve should have her Adam, according to the tiny, self-appointed sage.
- Having learned from that sage, I planted scented geraniums along the narrow part of the driveway.
- I will be spared the perils of a close encounter with the current Limnititzker sage.
- It was quite accidental that we planted Cleveland sage, a shrubby California native, next to where I park the truck.
- You are a teen-aged phenomenon with the body of a full grown man and the mind of a sage.
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- The correspondent, however, was sage enough to emphasise that the relationship was far from causal.
- They were sage young people and got on with Christopher.
very wise, especially as a result of a lot of experience: sage advice—sagely adverb |