Etimology
From Middle English valew, value, from Old French value, feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin valēre (“be strong, be worth”), from Proto-Italic *walēō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong”).
noun
value (countable and uncountable, plural values)
The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
(uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
(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.
(mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
Precise meaning; import.
(in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
(obsolete) Esteem; regard.
(obsolete) Valour.
Examples
The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.
Synonyms: worth; see also Thesaurus:value
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 value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
Okay, for the record, and this is probably obvious, those three departments do actually do things of value, assuming that you find Pell grants, mortgage insurance, low-income housing programs, the National Weather Service, the Patent and Trademark Office, and the Census Bureau to be of some value. And if it comes as news to you that that’s what those departments do, well then, hi Gary, I’m excited you’re watching the show. Uh, quick piece of advice, please stop trying to fuck mountains!
He does not share his parents' values.
family values
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.
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.
His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
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 , 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.
The value of a crotchet is twice that of a quaver.
When pigments of equal value are mixed together, the resulting color will be a darker value. This is the result of subtraction.
Shadows and light move very quickly when you are painting on location. Use Cobalt Blue to quickly establish the painting's values.
The exact value of pi cannot be represented in decimal notation.
the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
Yet that learned and diligent annotator has , in a following note , shown his sense of the value of a passage of Livy , marking , in a few words , most strongly the desolation of Italy under the Roman republic
The vein carries good values.
the values on the hanging walls
The French have a high value for them ; and I confess they are often what they call delicate
My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.
And him with equall valew countervayld
Related words
synonyms
valence
hyponyms
added value
economic value
face value
intrinsic value
lvalue
market value
note value
par value
rvalue
time value
verb
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.
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.
To hold dear.
Examples
I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.
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 , 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.
Gold was valued highly among the Romans.
I value these old photographs.
Related words
synonyms
appreciate
assess
esteem
prize
rate
respect
treasure
valuate
worthen
antonyms
belittle
derogate
despise
disesteem
disrespect
undervalue