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Worth   /wərθ/   Listen
Worth

noun
1.
An indefinite quantity of something having a specified value.
2.
The quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful.
3.
French couturier (born in England) regarded as the founder of Parisian haute couture; noted for introducing the bustle (1825-1895).  Synonym: Charles Frederick Worth.
adjective
1.
Worthy of being treated in a particular way.  Synonym: deserving.  "The deserving poor"
2.
Having a specified value.  "Worth her weight in gold"



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"Worth" Quotes from Famous Books



... so do I too; but mine are often very silly thoughts, not worth any one's knowing. I wish I could keep them in better order. Those lines written by Cowper, which I learnt the other ...
— Domestic pleasures - or, the happy fire-side • F. B. Vaux
... nothin' to live for? Alice gone! Darling Alice! Oh, dear! Me wish I wasn't never had been born; yes, me do! Don't care for meself! Wouldn't give nuffin for meself! Only fit to tend Missy Alice! Not fit for nuffin else. And now Alice gone—whar' to' nobody nose an' nobody care, 'xcept Poopy, who's not worth a ...
— Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader - A Tale of the Pacific • R. M. Ballantyne
... said my host; "its Just the place for a solitary-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it's going for a song—you ought ...
— Kerfol - 1916 • Edith Wharton
... Marian Fell—with which it is uniform—contain all the dramatic works of Chekhov. It considered not worth while to translate a few fragments published posthumously, or a monologue "On the Evils of Tobacco"—a half humorous lecture by "the husband of his wife;" which begins "Ladies, and in some respects, gentlemen," as this is hardly dramatic work. There is ...
— Plays by Chekhov, Second Series • Anton Chekhov
... years of service. Early one forenoon he came to our house, sat down, and abruptly offered to purchase it. I told him I sold nothing, and the bag at any rate was a present from a friend; but he was acquainted with these pretexts from of old, and knew what they were worth and how to meet them. Adopting what I believe is called 'the object method,' he drew out a bag of English gold, sovereigns and half-sovereigns, and began to lay them one by one in silence on the table; at each fresh piece reading our faces with a look. In vain I continued to ...
— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson


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