Worth
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worth¹
- /ˈwɜːθ/ Australia, UK
- /wɝθ/ US
- /ˈwəːθ/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ˈwøːθ/ New Zealand, Wales
- /ˈwʌɾθ/ Scotland
- /ˈweːθ/
- /ˈwɛːθ/
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Where it comes from
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”).
adjective
- 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.
- Deserving of. This rickety beater of a car isn’t worth repairing anymore.
- Valuable, worthwhile.
- Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating. This job is hardly worth the effort.
noun worths
- Value. I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.
- Merit, excellence. Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.
- 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.
- 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.
worth²
- /ˈwɜːθ/ Australia, UK
- /wɝθ/ US
- /ˈwəːθ/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ˈwøːθ/ New Zealand, Wales
- /ˈwʌɾθ/ Scotland
- /ˈweːθ/
- /ˈwɛːθ/
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Where it comes from
From Middle English worthen, wurthen, werthen (“to be; exist; come into being; come into existence”), from Old English weorþan (“to come into being; be made; become; arise; be”), from Proto-West Germanic *werþan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną (“to come about; happen; come into being; become”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn; turn out”).
Cognate with Dutch worden, dated Low German warrn, German werden, Old Norse verða (Norwegian verta, Swedish varda), Latin vertere.
verb worths · worthing · worth · worthed
- To be, become, betide. Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day.
Worth³
Where it comes from
From Old English worþ (“enclosure”)
proper noun Worths
- A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR3356).
- A civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, which formerly included the village.
- A village in Crawley borough, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ3036).
- A river in West Yorkshire, the River Worth, which joins the River Aire at Keighley.
- An unincorporated community in Turner County, Georgia.
- A village in Cook County, Illinois.
- A village in Worth County, Missouri.
- A town in Jefferson County, New York.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Worth Township.
- Ellipsis of Worth County.Worth County
- A municipality in Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- A surname.
