/wɜːθ/, /wɝθ/, /wɜ(r)t̪ʰ/
OriginFrom 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”), 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”), Polish wart (“worth”), Ukrainian вартість (vartistʹ, “worth, value”).
- not-comparableHaving 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.”
“Cleanliness is a virtue worth more than others.”
“A painting once thought to be worth thousands that is actually not worth much.”
- not-comparableDeserving of.
“This rickety beater of a car isn’t worth repairing anymore.”
“He found going to the Edinburgh Castle was worth it.”
“I think you’ll find my proposal worth your attention.”
- not-comparable, obsoleteValuable, worthwhile.
- not-comparableMaking a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
“This job is hardly worth the effort.”
- countable, uncountableValue.
“I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.”
“They have proven their worths as individual fighting men and their worth as a unit.”
“stocks having a worth of two million pounds; £2 million worth of stock”
- uncountableMerit, excellence.
“Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.”
“Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once ”
- uncountableAn 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 h”
- obsolete, uncountableHigh 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.”
- obsoleteTo be, become, betide.
“Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day.”
“For, adds our erudite Friend, the Saxon weorthan equivalent to the German werden, means to grow, to become; traces of which old vocable are still found in the North-country dialects, as, ‘What is word”
“Woe worth the man that crosses me.”
- countable, uncountableA village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR3356).
- countable, uncountableA civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, which formerly included the village.
- countable, uncountableA village in Crawley borough, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ3036).
- countable, uncountableA river in West Yorkshire, the River Worth, which joins the River Aire at Keighley.
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Turner County, Georgia.
- countable, uncountableA village in Cook County, Illinois.
- countable, uncountableA village in Worth County, Missouri.
- countable, uncountableA town in Jefferson County, New York.
- countable, uncountableA number of townships in the United States, listed under Worth Township.
- abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountableEllipsis of Worth County.
- countable, uncountableA municipality in Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- countableA surname.
Formsworths(plural) · worths(present, singular, third-person) · worthing(participle, present) · worth(past) · worthed(past) · worth(participle, past) · worthed(participle, past) · worthen(participle, past) · word(alternative) · Worths(plural)
Source: Wiktionary