Worth,

11 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Worth \Worth\, v. i. [OE. worthen, wur[thorn]en, to become, AS.
     weor[eth]an; akin to OS. wer[eth]an, D. worden, G. werden,
     OHG. werdan, Icel. ver[eth]a, Sw. varda, Goth. wa['i]rpan, L.
     vertere to turn, Skr. v[.r]t, v. i., to turn, to roll, to
     become. [root]143. Cf. {Verse}, -{ward}, {Weird}.]
     To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases,


     woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb
     is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in
     the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are
     equivalent phrases.
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           I counsel . . . to let the cat worthe.   --Piers
                                                    Plowman.
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           He worth upon [got upon] his steed gray. --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Worth \Worth\, a. [OE. worth, wur[thorn], AS. weor[eth], wurE;
     akin to OFries. werth, OS. wer[eth], D. waard, OHG. werd, G.
     wert, werth, Icel. ver[eth]r, Sw. v[aum]rd, Dan. v[ae]rd,
     Goth. wa['i]rps, and perhaps to E. wary. Cf. {Stalwart},
     {Ware} an article of merchandise, {Worship}.]
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     1. Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. [Obs.]
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              It was not worth to make it wise.     --Chaucer.
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     2. Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to
        be exchanged for.
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              A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats. --Shak.
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              All our doings without charity are nothing worth.
                                                    --Bk. of Com.
                                                    Prayer.
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              If your arguments produce no conviction, they are
              worth nothing to me.                  --Beattie.
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     3. Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a
        good sense.
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              To reign is worth ambition, though in hell.
                                                    --Milton.
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              This is life indeed, life worth preserving.
                                                    --Addison.
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     4. Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to
        the value of.
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              At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty
              hundred crowns.                       --Addison.
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     {Worth while}, or {Worth the while}. See under {While}, n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Worth \Worth\, n. [OE. worth, wur[thorn], AS. weor[eth],
     wur[eth]; weor[eth], wur[eth], adj. See {Worth}, a.]
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     1. That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or
        useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything
        useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed
        in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.
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              What 's worth in anything
              But so much money as 't will bring?   --Hudibras.
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     2. Value in respect of moral or personal qualities;
        excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness;
        as, a man or magistrate of great worth.
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              To be of worth, and worthy estimation. --Shak.
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              As none but she, who in that court did dwell,
              Could know such worth, or worth describe so well.
                                                    --Waller.
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              To think how modest worth neglected lies.
                                                    --Shenstone.
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     Syn: Desert; merit; excellence; price; rate.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  worth
       adj 1: having sufficient worth; "an idea worth considering"; "a
              cause deserving or meriting support"; "the deserving
              poor" (often used ironically) [syn: {deserving(p)}, {meriting(p)},
               {worth(p)}]
       2: having a specified value;  "not worth his salt"; "worth her
          weight in gold" [syn: {worth(p)}]
       n 1: an indefinite quantity of something having a specified
            value; "10 dollars worth of gasoline"
       2: the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or
          useful [ant: {worthlessness}]
       3: French couturier (born in England) regarded as the founder
          of Parisian haute couture; noted for introducing the
          bustle (1825-1895) [syn: {Charles Frederick Worth}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  140 Moby Thesaurus words for "worth":
     accent, account, ad valorem, advantage, advantageousness,
     agreeableness, appraised, approbation, approval, assessed,
     auspiciousness, avail, behalf, behoof, beneficialness, benefit,
     benevolence, benignity, blessed with, caliber, class, cogency,
     concern, concernment, consequence, consequentiality, consideration,
     convenience, conversion factor, credit, dearness, desert, emphasis,
     enfeoffed, esteem, estimation, evaluated, excellence, expedience,
     extraordinary worth, face, face value, fairness, favor,
     favorableness, fineness, first-rateness, fortune, good for,
     goodliness, goodness, grace, great price, great value, having,
     having and holding, healthiness, helpfulness, high order,
     high rank, holding, honor, import, importance, in possession of,
     interest, invaluableness, kindness, landed, landholding,
     landowning, mark, market value, master of, materiality, merit,
     moment, net worth, niceness, note, occupying, owning, par value,
     paramountcy, pennyworth, percentage, perfection, pleasantness,
     point, possessed of, possessing, precedence, preciousness,
     preeminence, price, priced, pricelessness, primacy, priority,
     prized, pro rata, profit, profitableness, propertied, property,
     property-owning, quality, rate, rated, regard, resources, respect,
     rewardingness, riches, seized of, self-importance, service,
     significance, skillfulness, soundness, stature, stress, substance,
     superiority, supremacy, tenured, use, usefulness, utility,
     validity, valuableness, valuation, value, value received, valued,
     valued at, virtue, virtuousness, weight, wholeness
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Worth, IL (village, FIPS 83518)
    Location: 41.68730 N, 87.79255 W
    Population (1990): 11208 (4500 housing units)
    Area: 6.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 60482
  Worth, MO (town, FIPS 81070)
    Location: 40.40550 N, 94.44684 W
    Population (1990): 103 (45 housing units)
    Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 64499

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Worth -- U.S. County in Iowa
     Population (2000):    7909
     Housing Units (2000): 3534
     Land area (2000):     399.997159 sq. miles (1035.987843 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    1.713199 sq. miles (4.437166 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    401.710358 sq. miles (1040.425009 sq. km)
     Located within:       Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
     Location:             43.364399 N, 93.265609 W
     Headwords:
      Worth
      Worth, IA
      Worth County
      Worth County, IA
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Worth -- U.S. County in Missouri
     Population (2000):    2382
     Housing Units (2000): 1245
     Land area (2000):     266.520008 sq. miles (690.283622 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.232997 sq. miles (0.603460 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    266.753005 sq. miles (690.887082 sq. km)
     Located within:       Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
     Location:             40.475472 N, 94.427608 W
     Headwords:
      Worth
      Worth, MO
      Worth County
      Worth County, MO
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Worth -- U.S. County in Georgia
     Population (2000):    21967
     Housing Units (2000): 9086
     Land area (2000):     569.727003 sq. miles (1475.586100 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    4.856238 sq. miles (12.577598 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    574.583241 sq. miles (1488.163698 sq. km)
     Located within:       Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
     Location:             31.556977 N, 83.840672 W
     Headwords:
      Worth
      Worth, GA
      Worth County
      Worth County, GA
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Worth, MO -- U.S. town in Missouri
     Population (2000):    94
     Housing Units (2000): 50
     Land area (2000):     0.248171 sq. miles (0.642759 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.248171 sq. miles (0.642759 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            81070
     Located within:       Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
     Location:             40.405489 N, 94.447079 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     64499
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Worth, MO
      Worth
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Worth, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
     Population (2000):    11047
     Housing Units (2000): 4513
     Land area (2000):     2.383681 sq. miles (6.173705 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.022083 sq. miles (0.057194 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    2.405764 sq. miles (6.230899 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            83518
     Located within:       Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
     Location:             41.688827 N, 87.792659 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     60482
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Worth, IL
      Worth