worth

resource

noun. supply drawn upon, either material or nonmaterial

Word Origin & History

Old English weorþ "significant, valuable, of value; valued, appreciated, highly thought-of, deserving, meriting; honorable, noble, of high rank; suitable for, proper, fit, capable," from Proto-Germanic *werthaz "toward, opposite," hence "equivalent, worth" (cf. Old Frisian werth, Old Norse verðr, Dutch waard, Old High German werd, German wert, Gothic wairþs "worth, worthy"), perhaps a derivative of PIE *wert- "to turn, wind," from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). Old Church Slavonic vredu, Lithuanian vertas "worth" are Germanic loan-words. From c.1200 as "equivalent to, of the value of, valued at; having importance equal to; equal in power to."

Example Sentences forworth

Dollars are worth more apiece in New York than any town I've ever been in.

As you do not propose to follow the sea, it will not be worth while to go as cabin-boy.

It is a tribute to the memory and worth of one of his early friends at Eton.

His nett proceeds (which I saw) were about $16,000 worth of gold.

We are pure nothings, concerning which speculation is not worth the trouble.

Well, at least, if I had to be disappointed, I should like it to be in something that would be worth having.

If a thing were worth having, it was certainly worth asking for.

If ye have headed it back it is as much as your ears are worth.

She has been searched, and we have found about a hundred dollars worth of laces on her.

And you caught her with a hundred dollars worth of laces that she hadn't bought.

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