worth
adjEtymology
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”) (the source of Polish wart (“worth”), Ukrainian вартість (vartistʹ, “worth, value”), etc), 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”).
Definitions
Having a value of
Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
- 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.
- Cleanliness is a virtue worth more than others.
- A painting once thought to be worth thousands that is actually not worth much.
Deserving of.
- This rickety beater of a car isn’t worth repairing anymore.
- He found going to the Edinburgh Castle was worth it.
- I think you’ll find my proposal worth your attention.
Valuable, worthwhile.
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Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
- This job is hardly worth the effort.
Value.
- I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.
- They have proven their worths as individual fighting men and their worth as a unit.
- stocks having a worth of two million pounds; £2 million worth of stock
Merit, excellence.
- Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.
An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.
High social standing, noble rank.
- 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.
To be, become, betide.
- Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day.
- Woe worth the man that crosses me.
A placename
A placename:
A surname.
The neighborhood
Derived
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Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at worth. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at worth. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at worth
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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