worth

worth
    adj 1: worthy of being treated in a particular way; "an idea
           worth considering"; "the deserving poor" (often used
           ironically) [syn: {deserving}, {worth(p)}]
    2: having a specified value; "not worth his salt"; "worth her
       weight in gold"
    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: {ineptitude}, {worthlessness}]
    3: French couturier (born in England) regarded as the founder of
       Parisian haute couture; noted for introducing the bustle
       (1825-1895) [syn: {Worth}, {Charles Frederick Worth}]
    

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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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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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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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
    

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
    

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
    

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
    

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
    

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
    

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      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