value
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the French value, feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin valere (“to be strong, be worth”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
value (plural values)
- The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
- 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, BBC Sport:
- United were value for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, with Paul Scholes also striking the post in the second half.
- The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.
- 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, BBC Sport:
- The degree of importance given to something.
- 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
- WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
- The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
- 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- M'Culloch
- An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value.
- Dryden
- His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
- M'Culloch
- (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.
- Joe Hing Lowe
- 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.
- Precise meaning; import.
- the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mitford to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Esteem; regard.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- Bishop Burnet
- My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.
- (obsolete) valour; also spelled valew
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
Synonyms[edit]
- (quality that renders something desirable): worth
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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
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ideal accepted by some individual or group
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Verb[edit]
value (third-person singular simple present values, present participle valuing, simple past and past participle valued)
- To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. […] But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
- I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
- To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
- Gold was valued highly among the Romans.
- To hold dear.
- I value these old photographs.
Synonyms[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to estimate the value of
to fix or determine the value of
to regard highly
to hold dear
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See also[edit]
Statistics[edit]
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Most common English words before 1923: stone · tree · cost · #782: value · cast · speaking · circumstances
External links[edit]
- 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
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Verb[edit]
value f
- feminine past participle of valoir
