value

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   relative darkness or lightness of a color

   I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light-Joe Hing Lowe

2. 2
   noun

   the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

   the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world

3. 3
   noun

   a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed

   the value assigned was 16 milliseconds

4. 4
   noun

   an ideal accepted by some individual or group

   They have old-fashioned values different from their children's.

5. 5
   noun

   the amount of money, goods, or services that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else

   They tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices.

6. 6
   verb

   fix or determine the value of

   assign a value to

7. 7
   noun

   The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.

   There is tremendous value in a good education.

8. 8
   noun

   The degree of importance given to something.

   The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.

Etymology

From Middle English valew, value, from Old French value, feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin valēre (“be strong, be worth”), from Proto-Italic *walēō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong”).