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English Dictionary: worth by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
worth
adj
  1. worthy of being treated in a particular way; "an idea worth considering"; "the deserving poor" (often used ironically)
    Synonym(s): 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
    Antonym(s): ineptitude, worthlessness
  3. French couturier (born in England) regarded as the founder of Parisian haute couture; noted for introducing the bustle (1825-1895)
    Synonym(s): Worth, Charles Frederick Worth
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Worth \Worth\, n. [OE. worth, wur[ed], AS. weor[eb], wur[eb];
      weor[eb], wur[eb], adj. See {Worth}, a.]
      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.
  
                     What 's worth in anything But so much money as 't
                     will bring?                                       --Hudibras.
  
      2. Value in respect of moral or personal qualities;
            excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness;
            as, a man or magistrate of great worth.
  
                     To be of worth, and worthy estimation. --Shak.
  
                     As none but she, who in that court did dwell, Could
                     know such worth, or worth describe so well.
                                                                              --Waller.
  
                     To think how modest worth neglected lies.
                                                                              --Shenstone.
  
      Syn: Desert; merit; excellence; price; rate.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Worth \Worth\, a. [OE. worth, wur[ed], AS. weor[eb], wurE; akin
      to OFries. werth, OS. wer[eb], D. waard, OHG. werd, G. wert,
      werth, Icel. ver[eb]r, Sw. v[84]rd, Dan. v[91]rd, Goth.
      wa[a1]rps, and perhaps to E. wary. Cf. {Stalwart}, {Ware} an
      article of merchandise, {Worship}.]
      1. Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. [Obs.]
  
                     It was not worth to make it wise.      --Chaucer.
  
      2. Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to
            be exchanged for.
  
                     A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats. --Shak.
  
                     All our doings without charity are nothing worth.
                                                                              --Bk. of Com.
                                                                              Prayer.
  
                     If your arguments produce no conviction, they are
                     worth nothing to me.                           --Beattie.
  
      3. Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a
            good sense.
  
                     To reign is worth ambition, though in hell.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     This is life indeed, life worth preserving.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      4. Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to
            the value of.
  
                     At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty
                     hundred crowns.                                 --Addison.
  
      {Worth while}, [or] {Worth the while}. See under {While}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Worth \Worth\, v. i. [OE. worthen, wur[ed]en, to become, AS.
      weor[eb]an; akin to OS. wer[eb]an, D. worden, G. werden, OHG.
      werdan, Icel. ver[eb]a, Sw. varda, Goth. wa[a1]rpan, L.
      vertere to turn, Skr. v[f0]t, v. i., to turn, to roll, to
      become. [fb]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.
  
               I counsel . . . to let the cat worthe.   --Piers
                                                                              Plowman.
  
               He worth upon [got upon] his steed gray. --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Present value \Pres"ent value\ [or] worth \worth\ (of money
      payable at a future date).
      The principal which, drawing interest at a given rate, will
      amount to the given sum at the date on which this is to be
      paid; thus, interest being at 6%, the present value of $106
      due one year hence is $100.

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
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