Taxonomy of meanings for 賢者:　　

  • TALENT
    • NPnonreferentialabstractly: the man of talent and moral worth (at any time and in any place)
    • NPdefinitethose who are possessed of moral worth and talent (at a certain time or in a certain place)
    • NPpost-Ndefinitebe the worthiest in N; be a worthy on the scale of N, be a worthy of N-class (but contrast 古之賢者)
    • NPindefinitea worthy; any worthy; any worthies; worthies of any kind
    • NP{PRED}be a worthy, be a person of moral talent; also plural: be persons of moral worth, be worthies
    • NP=Nprthe worthy Npr
    • NPpost-V{NUM}the (counted) worthies
    • NPcoreferentialsuch a worthy (coreferential, anaphoric)
    • NPa certain(there was) a certain (presumed identifiable but unspecified)
    • NPdefinitethe more talented one (of the two, or of the set)
    • NPsuperlativethe most talented one
  • GOOD
    • NPpluralthose who are worthy, those who are morally goodCH