worth
1 (wûrth)
[Middle English, from Old English weorth.]
noun
- The quality that renders something desirable, useful, or valuable: the worth of higher education.
- Material or market value: stocks having a worth of ten million dollars.
- A quantity of something that may be purchased for a specified sum or by a specified means: ten dollars' worth of natural gas; wanted their money's worth.
- Wealth; riches: her net worth.
- Quality that commands esteem or respect; merit: a person of great worth.
adjective
- Equal in value to something specified: worth its weight in gold.
- Deserving of; meriting: a proposal not worth consideration.
- Having wealth or riches amounting to: a person worth millions.
idioms
- for all (one) is worth
- To the utmost of one's powers or ability.
- for what it's worth
- Even though it may not be important or valuable: Here's my advice, for what it's worth.
worth
2 (wûrth)
[Middle English worthen, from Old English weorthan.]
intransitive verb: worthed, worth·ing, worths.
Archaic- To befall; betide: “Howl ye, Woe worth the day!” (Ezekiel 30:2)
