• (RP) IPA: /wɜːθ/
• (GA) IPA: /wɝθ/

worth (not comparable)

1. Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.

   My house now is worth double what I paid for it.

   Cleanliness is a virtue worth more than others.

2. Deserving of.

   I think you’ll find my proposal worth your attention.

3. (obsolete, except in Scots) Valuable, worth while.
4. Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

   This job is hardly worth the effort.

• French: équivalent
• German: Wert
• Italian: valore
• Portuguese: equivalente
• Russian: сто́ящий
• Spanish: valioso

• French: méritant, valoir la peine (verb)
• German: verdienen, lohnen (verb)
• Italian: degno, meritevole
• Portuguese: valer a pena
• Russian: сто́ящий
• Spanish: valer la pena

• German: Wert
• Russian: сто́ящий

worth

1. (countable) Value.

   I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.

   They have proven their worths as individual fighting men and their worth as a unit.

2. (uncountable) Merit, excellence.

   Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.

3. (uncountable) Wealth, fortune, riches, property, possessions.

• French: valeur
• German: Wert
• Italian: valore
• Portuguese: valor
• Russian: цена́
• Spanish: valor, valía

worth (worths, present participle worthing; past worth, past participle worth)

1. (obsolete, except in set phrases) To be, become, betide.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Ezekiel 30:2 ↗:

     Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day.

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 3, "Landlord Edmund"

     For, adds our erudite Friend, the Saxon weorthan equivalent to the German werden, means to grow, to become; traces of which old vocable are still found in the North-country dialects, as, ‘What is word of him?’ meaning ‘What is become of him?’ and the like. Nay we in modern English still say, ‘Woe worth the hour.’ [i.e. Woe befall the hour]

   Woe worth the man that crosses me.
   What's worth of him now?
   Well worth thee, me friend. (May good fortune befall you, my friend.)

1. A village in Kent, England.
2. A village in West Sussex, England.
3. Surname