/ˈvæl.juː/, /ˈvæl.ju/, /ˈvæl.jʉː/
OriginFrom Middle English valew, value, from Old French value, feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin valēre (“be strong, be worth”), from Proto-Italic *walēō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong”).
- countable, uncountableThe quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
“There is tremendous value in a good education.”
“An abacus is of little value when you have an electronic calculator.”
“United were value for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, with Paul Scholes also striking the post in the second half.”
- uncountableThe degree of importance given to something.
“The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.”
“Okay, for the record, and this is probably obvious, those three departments do actually do things of value, assuming that you find Pell grants, mortgage insurance, low-income housing programs, the Nat”
- countable, often, plural, uncountableThat which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
“He does not share his parents' values.”
“family values”
“WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant ”
- countable, uncountableThe amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
“The value of the stolen painting is estimated to be around four million pounds.”
“An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value.”
“His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.”
- countable, uncountableThe relative duration of a musical note.
“The value of a crotchet is twice that of a quaver.”
- countable, uncountableThe relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
“When pigments of equal value are mixed together, the resulting color will be a darker value. This is the result of subtraction.”
“Shadows and light move very quickly when you are painting on location. Use Cobalt Blue to quickly establish the painting's values.”
- countable, uncountableAny definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
“The exact value of pi cannot be represented in decimal notation.”
- countable, uncountablePrecise meaning; import.
“the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument”
“Yet that learned and diligent annotator has , in a following note , shown his sense of the value of a passage of Livy , marking , in a few words , most strongly the desolation of Italy under the Roman”
- countable, in-plural, uncountableThe valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
“The vein carries good values.”
“the values on the hanging walls”
- countable, obsolete, uncountableEsteem; regard.
“The French have a high value for them ; and I confess they are often what they call delicate”
“My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.”
- countable, obsolete, uncountableValour.
“Who ſoone prepard to field, his ſword forth drew, / And him with equall valew counteruayld: […]”
- To determine or estimate the value of; to judge the worth of.
“I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.”
“The property has been valued at six million pounds.”
“Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as ”
- To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
“Gold was valued highly among the Romans.”
“I value his advice.”
- To hold dear; to cherish.
“I value these old photographs.”
Formsvalues(plural) · values(present, singular, third-person) · valuing(participle, present) · valued(participle, past) · valued(past)