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worth

1  [wurth]
Use worth in a Sentence
–preposition
1. good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
2. having a value of, or equal in value to, as in money: This vase is worth 12 dollars.
3. having property to the value or amount of: They are worth millions.
–noun
4. excellence of character or quality as commanding esteem: women of worth.
5. usefulness or importance, as to the world, to a person, or for a purpose: Your worth to the world is inestimable.
6. value, as in money.
7. a quantity of something of a specified value: ten cents' worth of candy.
8. wealth; riches; property or possessions: net worth.
—Idiom
9. for all one is worth, Informal. to the utmost: He ran for all he was worth.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE weorth, wurth; c. OHG werd (G wert), ON verthr, Goth wairths

Synonyms:
4. See merit. 6. See value.

worth

2  [wurth]
–verb (used without object) Archaic.
to happen or betide: woe worth the day.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME worthen, OE wurthan, weorthan; c. G werden, ON vertha, Goth wairthan to become, L vertere to turn (see verse )

Worth

  [wurth]
–noun
a town in NE Illinois. 11,592.
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worth 1   (wûrth)   
n.  
  1. The quality that renders something desirable, useful, or valuable: the worth of higher education.
  2. Material or market value: stocks having a worth of ten million dollars.
  3. 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.
  4. Wealth; riches: her net worth.
  5. Quality that commands esteem or respect; merit: a person of great worth.
adj.  
  1. Equal in value to something specified: worth its weight in gold.
  2. Deserving of; meriting: a proposal not worth consideration.
  3. Having wealth or riches amounting to: a person worth millions.

[Middle English, from Old English weorth; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.]
worth 2   (wûrth)   
intr.v.   worthed, worth·ing, worths Archaic
To befall; betide: "Howl ye, Woe worth the day!" (Ezekiel 30:2).

[Middle English worthen, from Old English weorthan; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Worth

Worth\, v. i. [OE. worthen, wur[thorn]en, to become, AS. weor[eth]an; akin to OS. wer[eth]an, D. worden, G. werden, OHG. werdan, Icel. ver[eth]a, Sw. varda, Goth. wa['i]rpan, L. vertere to turn, Skr. v[.r]t, v. i., to turn, to roll, to become. [root]143. Cf. Verse, -ward, Weird.] To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.

I counsel . . . to let the cat worthe. --Piers Plowman.

He worth upon [got upon] his steed gray. --Chaucer.

Worth

Worth\, a. [OE. worth, wur[thorn], AS. weor[eth], wurE; akin to OFries. werth, OS. wer[eth], D. waard, OHG. werd, G. wert, werth, Icel. ver[eth]r, Sw. v["a]rd, Dan. v[ae]rd, Goth. wa['i]rps, and perhaps to E. wary. Cf. Stalwart, Ware an article of merchandise, Worship.]

1. Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. [Obs.]

It was not worth to make it wise. --Chaucer.

2. Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.

A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats. --Shak.

All our doings without charity are nothing worth. --Bk. of Com. Prayer.

If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me. --Beattie.

3. Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.

To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. --Milton.

This is life indeed, life worth preserving. --Addison.

4. Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.

At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty hundred crowns. --Addison.

Worth while, or Worth the while. See under While, n.

Worth

Worth\, n. [OE. worth, wur[thorn], AS. weor[eth], wur[eth]; weor[eth], wur[eth], adj. See Worth, a.]

1. That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.

What 's worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring? --Hudibras.

2. Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth.

To be of worth, and worthy estimation. --Shak.

As none but she, who in that court did dwell, Could know such worth, or worth describe so well. --Waller.

To think how modest worth neglected lies. --Shenstone.

Syn: Desert; merit; excellence; price; rate.
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Language Translation for : worth
Spanish: valor,
German: der Wert,
Japanese: 価値
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worth  (1)
O.E. weorð "equal in value to," from P.Gmc. *werthaz “toward, opposite,” hence “equivalent, worth" (cf. O.Fris. werth, O.N. verðr, Du. waard, O.H.G. werd, Ger. wert, Goth. wairþs "worth, worthy"), perhaps a derivative of PIE *wert- "to turn, wind," from base *wer- "to turn, bend" (see versus). O.C.S. vredu, Lith. vertas "worth" are Gmc. loan-words. Worthless is first attested 1588; worthwhile is recorded from 1884.

worth  (2)
"to come to be," now chiefly, if not solely, in the archaic expression woe worth the day, present subjunctive of O.E. weorðan "to become, be, to befall," from P.Gmc. *werthan "to become" (cf. O.S., O.Du. werthan, O.N. verða, O.Fris. wertha, O.H.G. werdan, Ger. werden, Goth. wairþan "to become"), lit. "to turn into," from P.Gmc. *werthaz “toward, opposite,” perhaps a derivative of PIE *wert- "to turn, wind," from base *wer- "to turn, bend" (see versus).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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worth

In addition to the idioms beginning with worth, also see for all one is worth; game is not worth the candle; get one's money's worth; not worth a damn; picture is worth a thousand words.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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