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Worth

//wɜːθ// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for. not-comparable

    "How much / What is your house worth? - Now it's worth half what I paid for it. So it'd sure would be worthwhile to repair before putting it for sale."

  2. 2
    Deserving of. not-comparable

    "This rickety beater of a car isn’t worth repairing anymore."

  3. 3
    Valuable, worthwhile. not-comparable, obsolete
  4. 4
    Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating. not-comparable

    "This job is hardly worth the effort."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having a specified value wordnet
  2. 2
    (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A placename:; A number of places in England:; A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR3356). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A placename:; A number of places in England:; A civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, which formerly included the village. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A placename:; A number of places in England:; A village in Crawley borough, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ3036). countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A placename:; A number of places in England:; A river in West Yorkshire, the River Worth, which joins the River Aire at Keighley. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Turner County, Georgia. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A village in Cook County, Illinois. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A village in Worth County, Missouri. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Jefferson County, New York. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A number of townships in the United States, listed under Worth Township. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; Ellipsis of Worth County. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
  6. 11
    A placename:; A municipality in Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. countable, uncountable
  7. 12
    A surname. countable
Noun
  1. 1
    Value. countable, uncountable

    "I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please."

  2. 2
    the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful wordnet
  3. 3
    Merit, excellence. uncountable

    "Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged."

  4. 4
    an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value wordnet
  5. 5
    An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time. uncountable

    "Although most modern OTDR equipment can store at least eight days' worth of data (in line with current industry standards), when it was downloaded from the Class 57s involved, it was discovered they had stored just over eight hours' worth of data."

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  1. 6
    High social standing, noble rank. obsolete, uncountable

    "VVhat bee they men of any worth or no? […] No my good Lord, they bee men of no great account, For they bee none but Tylers, Thatchers, Millers, and ſuch like."

Verb
  1. 1
    To be, become, betide. obsolete

    "Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English worth, from Old English weorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *werþ, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz (“worthy, valuable”); from Proto-Indo-European *wert-. Cognate with Scots wirth (“worth”), Cimbrian bèart (“worth, value”), Dutch waard, weerd (“worth”), German wert (“worth”), Luxembourgish wäert (“worth”), Yiddish ווערט (vert), ווערד (verd, “worth, value”), Danish værd (“worth”), Faroese and Icelandic verður (“worth”), Norwegian Bokmål verdt (“worth”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“worth”), Swedish värd (“worth”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸 (wairþ, “worth, value”), Welsh gwerth (“worth, value”), Polish wart (“worth”), Ukrainian вартість (vartistʹ, “worth, value”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English worth, from Old English weorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *werþ, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz (“worthy, valuable”); from Proto-Indo-European *wert-. Cognate with Scots wirth (“worth”), Cimbrian bèart (“worth, value”), Dutch waard, weerd (“worth”), German wert (“worth”), Luxembourgish wäert (“worth”), Yiddish ווערט (vert), ווערד (verd, “worth, value”), Danish værd (“worth”), Faroese and Icelandic verður (“worth”), Norwegian Bokmål verdt (“worth”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“worth”), Swedish värd (“worth”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸 (wairþ, “worth, value”), Welsh gwerth (“worth, value”), Polish wart (“worth”), Ukrainian вартість (vartistʹ, “worth, value”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English worthen, wurthen, werthen (“to be; exist; come into being; come into existence”), from Old English weorþan (“to come into being; be made; become; arise; be”), from Proto-West Germanic *werþan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną (“to come about; happen; come into being; become”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn; turn out”). Cognate with Dutch worden, dated Low German warrn, German werden, Old Norse verða (Norwegian verta, Swedish varda), Latin vertere.

Etymology 4

From Old English worþ (“enclosure”)

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