The quality that renders something desirable, useful, or valuable: the worth of higher education.
Material or market value: stocks having a worth of ten million dollars.
A quantity of something that may be purchased for a specified sum or by a specified means: ten dollars' worth of natural gas; wanted their money's worth.
Wealth; riches: her net worth.
Quality that commands esteem or respect; merit: a person of great worth.
adj.
Equal in value to something specified: worth its weight in gold.
Deserving of; meriting: a proposal not worth consideration.
Having wealth or riches amounting to: a person worth millions.
[Middle English, from Old English weorth; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.]
(wûrth) 