value
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From the French value, feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin valere (“to be strong, be worth”).
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[edit] Noun
value (plural values)
- The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.
- The degree of importance you give to something.
- The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
- He tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices.
- (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
- (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
- "I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light." -Joe Hing Lowe
- Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
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- (quality that renders something desirable) worth
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[edit] Translations
quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
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degree of importance you give to something
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amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
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relative duration of a musical note
relative darkness or lightness of a color
numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed
ideal accepted by some individual or group
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[edit] Verb
value (third-person singular simple present values, present participle valuing, simple past and past participle valued)
- To estimate the cost of; judge the worth of something.
- I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.
- To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
- Gold was valued highly among the Romans.
- To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
- To hold dear.
- I value these old photographs.
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[edit] Translations
estimate the value of
place a value on
regard highly
fix or determine the value of
hold dear
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Most common English words before 1923: stone · tree · cost · #782: value · cast · speaking · circumstances
[edit] External links
- value in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- value in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- value at OneLook Dictionary Search
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[edit] French
[edit] Verb
value f.
- feminine past participle of valoir
