worth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value

   10 dollars worth of gasoline

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   Deserving of.

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

4. 4
   adj

   Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

   This job is hardly worth the effort.

5. 5
   noun

   Value.

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

6. 6
   noun

   Merit, excellence.

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

7. 7
   noun

   An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

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…