value

Forms

1.The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
- There is tremendous value in a good education.
- An abacus is of little value when you have an electronic calculator.
- 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.
2.The degree of importance given to something.
- The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
3.That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
- He does not share his parents' values.
4.The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- The value of the stolen painting is estimated to be around four million pounds.
- His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
- 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.

1.To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
- Gold was valued highly among the Romans.
2.To hold dear; to cherish.
- I value these old photographs.
3.To determine or estimate the value of; to judge the worth of.
- The property has been valued at six million pounds.
- I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.

Very common· #490

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”).