English Explanatory Dictionary

worth

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
  2. Deserving of.
  3. Valuable, worthwhile.
  4. Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
noun
  1. Value.
  2. Merit, excellence.
  3. An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.
  4. High social standing, noble rank.
verb
  1. To be, become, betide.
name
  1. A placename:
  2. A number of places in England:
  3. A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR3356).
  4. A civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, which formerly included the village.
  5. A village in Crawley borough, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ3036).
  6. A river in West Yorkshire, the River Worth, which joins the River Aire at Keighley.
  7. A number of places in the United States:
  8. An unincorporated community in Turner County, Georgia.
  9. A village in Cook County, Illinois.
  10. A village in Worth County, Missouri.
  11. A town in Jefferson County, New York.
  12. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Worth Township.

Pronunciation

/wɜːθ/ /wɝθ/ En-us-worth.ogg /wɜ(r)t̪ʰ/ /wərt̪ʰ/ /(w)ɵrt̪ʰ/

Word forms

worth worths worthing worthed worthen word

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 värd (“worth”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸 (wairþ, “worth, value”), Welsh gwerth (“worth, value”).

Derived words

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush all one's life is worth all that one's life is worth all that one's life's worth an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure a picture is worth a thousand words an image is worth a thousand words dime's worth for all one is worth for what it's worth FWIW juice is worth the squeeze not worth a brass farthing not worth a Continental not worth a cress not worth a curse not worth a dime not worth a plugged nickel not worth a plug nickel not worth a tinker's curse not worth a whistle not worth hell room not worth salt not worth the candle not worth the paper it is printed on not worth the powder not worth the powder and shot not worth writing home about play it for all it's worth the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you take the game is not worth the candle the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you get the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you're going to get the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you take tuppence-worth two cents' worth unworth worth a Jew's eye worth every penny worthful worth it worth its weight in gold worthless worth one's salt worth one's weight in gold worth one's weight in salt worth one's while worth seeing worth the whistle worth while worthwhile worthy your blood's worth bottling your network is your net worth your net worth is your network a dime's worth all one's life's worth
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