worth

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Having a particular value or price.

   The house is now worth half what I paid for it.

2. 2
   adj

   Good or useful enough to justify the time, money, or effort.

   This old car isn't worth repairing anymore.

3. 3
   noun

   The value or importance of something.

   I'd like a dollar's worth of candy, please.

4. 4
   noun

   The good qualities or merit of a person or thing.

   Our new director is a person whose worth is well recognized.

Common collocations

• prove your worth Verb + noun
• net worth Adjective + noun

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…

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