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English
Alternative forms
- valew (in the sense of “valour”)
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
value (countable and uncountable, plural values)
- The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.
- Synonyms: worth; see also Thesaurus:value
2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in 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.
- (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
2016 October 16, “Third Parties”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO: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!
- That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
- He does not share his parents' values.
- family values
2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in 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 amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
1825, John Ramsay McCulloch, Principles of Political Economy: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.
1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, , London: J Heptinstall for W. Rogers, , →OCLC:His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in 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.
- (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.
2006, Edith Anderson Feisner, Colour: How to Use Colour in Art and Design:When pigments of equal value are mixed together, the resulting color will be a darker value. This is the result of subtraction.
2010, Rose Edin, Dee Jepsen, Color Harmonies: Paint Watercolors Filled with Light:Shadows and light move very quickly when you are painting on location. Use Cobalt Blue to quickly establish the painting's values.
- (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
The exact value of pi cannot be represented in decimal notation.
- Precise meaning; import.
the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece: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
- (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
The vein carries good values.
the values on the hanging walls
- (obsolete) Esteem; regard.
1724, [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. , volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Ward , →OCLC:My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.
- (obsolete) Valour.
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Derived terms
Translations
quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- Albanian: vlerë (sq) f
- Arabic: قِيمَة f (qīma)
- Hijazi Arabic: قيمة f (gīma)
- Armenian: արժեք (hy) (aržekʿ)
- Azerbaijani: dəyər (az), qiymət (az)
- Bashkir: ҡәҙер (qəźer), ҡиммәт (qimmət)
- Basque: balio (eu)
- Belarusian: кашто́ўнасць f (kaštóŭnascʹ), цэ́ннасць f (cénnascʹ), ва́ртасць (be) f (vártascʹ), кошт m (košt)
- Bengali: মূল্য (bn) (mullo)
- Bulgarian: це́нност (bg) f (cénnost), сто́йност (bg) f (stójnost)
- Burmese: အဖိုး (my) (a.hpui:)
- Catalan: valor (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 價值/价值 (gaa3 zik6)
- Dungan: җяҗы (ži͡ažɨ)
- Mandarin: 價值/价值 (zh) (jiàzhí)
- Czech: hodnota (cs) f
- Danish: værdi c
- Dutch: waarde (nl) f
- Esperanto: valoro
- Estonian: väärtus
- Finnish: arvo (fi)
- French: valeur (fr) f
- Friulian: valôr m
- Galician: valor (gl) m
- Georgian: ღირებულება (ɣirebuleba), ფასეულობა (paseuloba)
- German: Wert (de) m
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸 n (wairþ)
- Greek: αξία (el) f (axía)
- Haitian Creole: valè
- Hebrew: עֵרֶך (he) m (érekh)
- Hindi: मूल्य (hi) m (mūlya), क़ीमत f (qīmat), क़द्र f (qadra)
- Icelandic: gildi n, mikilvægi n, gagnsemi (is) f
- Irish: luach m
- Italian: valore (it) m
- Japanese: 価値 (ja) (かち, kachi)
- Kazakh: мән (män), құндылық (qūndylyq), бағалылық (bağalylyq)
- Khmer: តម្លៃ (km) (tɑmlay)
- Korean: 가치(價値) (ko) (gachi)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: biha (ku), nirx (ku), qîmet (ku)
- Kyrgyz: баалуулук (ky) (baaluuluk), маани (ky) (maani)
- Lao: ຄ່າ (lo) (khā), ຄຸນຄ່າ (khun khā)
- Latin: pretium n, valor (la) m
- Latvian: vērtība f
- Lithuanian: vertė (lt) f
- Macedonian: вредност f (vrednost)
- Malay: nilai
- Malayalam: മൂല്യം (ml) (mūlyaṁ)
- Maori: uaratanga, wāriu
- Marathi: मूल्य (mr) n (mūlya)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: өртөг (mn) (örtög)
- Mongolian: ᠥᠷᠲᠡᠭ (örteg)
- Norman: valeu f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: verd (no) n, verdi (no) m
- Occitan: valor (oc)
- Old English: weorþ n
- Ottoman Turkish: دكر (değer)
- Papiamentu: balor
- Pashto: ارزش m (arzeš), ارزښت (ps) m (arzᶕẍt), بها (ps) f (bahā), قيمت (ps) m (qimat)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: اَرْزِش (fa) (arzeš), بَها (fa) (bahâ), قِیْمَت (fa) (ğeymat), (please verify) اَخْش (axš)
- Plautdietsch: Wieet m
- Polish: wartość (pl) f
- Portuguese: valor (pt) m, valia (pt) f
- Quechua: chanin
- Romanian: valoare (ro) f
- Romansch: valur m, valour m, valeta f, valita f
- Russian: це́нность (ru) f (cénnostʹ), сто́имость (ru) f (stóimostʹ)
- Sardinian: balore m, valore m
- Scottish Gaelic: fiach m, luach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вре́дно̄ст f, врије́дно̄ст f, вридност f (Chakavian, Ikavian)
- Roman: vrédnōst (sh) f, vrijédnōst (sh) f, vridnost f (Chakavian, Ikavian)
- Sicilian: valuri (scn) m
- Slovak: hodnota (sk) f
- Slovene: vrednost (sl) f
- Somali: qiimo
- Spanish: valor (es) m
- Swahili: thamani (sw)
- Swedish: värde (sv) n
- Tajik: арзиш (tg) (arziš), қимат (qimat), баҳо (baho)
- Tatar: кыйммәт (qıymmät), кадер (tt) (qader)
- Telugu: విలువ (te) (viluva)
- Thai: ค่า (th) (kâa), คุณค่า (th) (kun-kâa)
- Turkish: değer (tr), kıymet (tr)
- Turkmen: baha (tk), nyrh
- Ukrainian: ці́нність (uk) f (cínnistʹ), ва́ртість (uk) f (vártistʹ), кошт m (košt)
- Urdu: قِیمَت f (qīmat), اَرْزِش f (arziś), شَرْحْ f (śarh)
- Uyghur: قىممەت (qimmet), باھا (baha)
- Uzbek: qiymat (uz), baho (uz), narx (uz)
- Vietnamese: giá trị (vi) (價值)
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degree of importance given to something
- Armenian: արժեք (hy) (aržekʿ)
- Azerbaijani: dəyər (az)
- Bashkir: ҡәҙер (qəźer), ҡиммәт (qimmət)
- Bulgarian: ва́жност (bg) f (vážnost)
- Catalan: valor (ca) m or f
- Danish: værd n
- Dutch: belang (nl)
- Estonian: väärtus
- Finnish: painoarvo (fi), arvo (fi)
- French: valeur (fr) m
- Georgian: ღირებულება (ɣirebuleba), მნიშვნელობა (mnišvneloba)
- German: Wert (de) m, Wichtigkeit (de) f
- Greek: αξία (el) f (axía)
- Hebrew: עֵרֶך (he) m (érekh)
- Hindi: मूल्य (hi) m (mūlya), क़द्र f (qadra)
- Hungarian: jelentőség (hu), fontosság (hu)
- Irish: fiúntas m
- Macedonian: значење n (značenje), важност f (važnost)
- Malay: nilai
- Malayalam: വില (ml) (vila)
- Marathi: मूल्य (mr) n (mūlya)
- Norman: valeu f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: betydning (no) c, verdi (no) m
- Old English: weorþ n
- Ottoman Turkish: دكر (değer)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: اَرْزِش (fa) (arzeš)
- Polish: wartość (pl) f, znaczenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: apreço (pt) m
- Russian: значе́ние (ru) n (značénije), ва́жность (ru) f (vážnostʹ), це́нность (ru) f (cénnostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: fiach m, luach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ва́жно̄ст f, зна̏ча̄ј m, вре́дно̄ст f, врије́дно̄ст f, вридност f (Chakavian, Ikavian)
- Roman: vážnōst (sh) f, znȁčāj (sh) m, vrédnōst (sh) f, vrijédnōst (sh) f, vridnost f (Chakavian, Ikavian)
- Spanish: valor (es) m, importancia (es) f
- Swahili: thamani (sw)
- Swedish: värde (sv) n
- Thai: คุณค่า (th) (kun-kâa)
- Turkish: değer (tr), kıymet (tr); ehemmiyet (tr) (obsolescent), önem (tr)
- Ukrainian: зна́чення (uk) n (znáčennja)
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amount (of money, goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
- Armenian: գին (hy) (gin)
- Azerbaijani: dəyər (az)
- Bashkir: ҡиммәт (qimmət)
- Belarusian: кошт m (košt)
- Bulgarian: цена́ (bg) f (cená)
- Catalan: valor (ca) m or f
- Cherokee: ᏧᎬᏩᎶᏗ (tsugvwalodi)
- Danish: værdi c
- Dutch: waarde (nl)
- Esperanto: valoro
- Estonian: väärtus
- Finnish: hinta-laatusuhde (fi), hinta–laatu-suhde
- French: valeur (fr) f
- Georgian: ფასი (pasi), ღირებულება (ɣirebuleba)
- German: Wert (de) m
- Greek: αξία (el) f (axía)
- Hebrew: עֵרֶך (he) m (érekh)
- Hindi: मूल्य (hi) m (mūlya), क़ीमत f (qīmat), कीमत (hi) f (kīmat)
- Hungarian: érték (hu)
- Icelandic: verðgildi n
- Irish: luach m
- Italian: valore (it) m
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: نرخ (nirx)
- Latin: pretium n
- Latvian: vērtība f
- Macedonian: вредност f (vrednost)
- Malay: nilai
- Malayalam: വില (ml) (vila), മൂല്യം (ml) (mūlyaṁ)
- Maori: wāriu
- Marathi: मूल्य (mr) n (mūlya), किंमत f (kimmat)
- Norman: valeu f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: pris (no) m, verdi (no) m
- Old English: weorþ n
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: اَرْزِش (fa) (arzeš), بَها (fa) (bahâ)
- Polish: wartość (pl) f, cena (pl) f, koszt (pl) m
- Portuguese: valor (pt) m
- Russian: цена́ (ru) f (cená), сто́имость (ru) f (stóimostʹ), це́нность (ru) f (cénnostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: fiach m, luach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вредност f, вриједност f, цена f
- Roman: vrednost (sh) f, vrijednost (sh) f, cena (sh) f
- Slovene: cena (sl) f (as in cost), vrednost (sl) f
- Spanish: valor (es) m
- Swahili: thamani (sw)
- Swedish: värde (sv) n
- Thai: มูลค่า (th) (muun-lá-kâa), ราคา (th) (raa-kaa)
- Turkish: değer (tr), kıymet (tr)
- Ukrainian: ціна́ (uk) f (ciná), ва́ртість (uk) f (vártistʹ), кошт m (košt)
- West Frisian: djoerst n
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relative duration of a musical note
- Bashkir: оҙонлоҡ (oźonloq)
- Bulgarian: продължи́телност (bg) f (prodǎlžítelnost)
- Catalan: valor (ca) m or f
- Estonian: vältus
- Finnish: aika-arvo
- French: valeur (fr) f
- German: Notenwert m, Wert (de) m
- Hungarian: érték (hu)
- Icelandic: lengdargildi n
- Macedonian: траење n (traenje), времетраење n (vremetraenje)
- Malay: nilai
- Norman: valeu f
- Polish: wartość (pl) f
- Portuguese: valor (pt) m
- Russian: дли́тельность (ru) f (dlítelʹnostʹ), продолжи́тельность (ru) f (prodolžítelʹnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вре́дно̄ст f, врије́дно̄ст f, вридност f (Chakavian, Ikavian)
- Roman: vrédnōst (sh) f, vrijédnōst (sh) f, vridnost f (Chakavian, Ikavian)
- Swedish: värde (sv) n, notvärde n
- Turkish: nota değeri (tr)
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relative darkness or lightness of a color
numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed
ideal accepted by some individual or group
- Armenian: արժեք (hy) (aržekʿ)
- Danish: værdi c
- Dutch: waarde (nl)
- Estonian: väärtused pl
- Finnish: arvo (fi)
- French: valeur (fr) f
- German: Werte (de) m pl
- Greek: αξία (el) f (axía)
- Hebrew: עֵרֶך (he) m (érekh)
- Hungarian: értékrend (hu)
- Icelandic: gildi n
- Italian: valore (it) m
- Japanese: 価値観 (ja) (かちかん, kachikan)
- Latvian: vērtība f
- Macedonian: вредност f (vrednost)
- Malay: nilai
- Malayalam: മൂല്യം (ml) (mūlyaṁ)
- Marathi: मूल्य (mr) n (mūlya)
- Norman: valeu f
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: اَرْزِش (fa) (arzeš)
- Polish: wartość (pl) f
- Portuguese: valor (pt) m, ideal (pt) m
- Romanian: valoare (ro) f
- Russian: це́нность (ru) f (cénnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вре́дно̄ст f, врије́дно̄ст f, вридност f (Chakavian, Ikavian), вредно̀та f, вриједно̀та f
- Roman: vrédnōst (sh) f, vrijédnōst (sh) f, vridnost f (Chakavian, Ikavian), vrednòta (sh) f, vrijednòta f
- Slovene: vrednota f
- Spanish: valor (es) m
- Swedish: värde (sv) n
- Thai: ค่านิยม (th) (kâa-ní-yom)
- Turkish: değerler (tr) pl
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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.
I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in 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.
- 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.
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Translations
to estimate the value of
- Bulgarian: оценявам (bg) (ocenjavam)
- Czech: ocenit (cs)
- Danish: vurdere, værdsætte
- Finnish: arvioida (fi)
- French: évaluer (fr)
- Georgian: აფასებს (apasebs), შეფასება (šepaseba) (verbal noun)
- German: schätzen (de)
- Hebrew: העריך (he'eríkh)
- Irish: luacháil
- Italian: valutare (it), stimare (it)
- Japanese: 評価する (ja) (hyōka suru)
- Latin: aestimō (la), taxō (la)
- Latvian: novērtēt, vērtēt
- Malay: dinilai
- Maori: wāriu
- Norwegian: verdsette, taksere
- Persian: ارزشگذاری (fa) (arzešgozâri)
- Polish: wycenić (pl), wyceniać (pl)
- Portuguese: valorar
- Quechua: chaniy
- Russian: оце́нивать (ru) impf (océnivatʹ), оцени́ть (ru) pf (ocenítʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: vrednovati (sh), valorizirati (sh)
- Spanish: valorar (es), cifrar (es)
- Swedish: värdera (sv)
- Telugu: వెలకట్టు (velakaṭṭu)
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to fix or determine the value of
to regard highly
- Bulgarian: ценя (bg) (cenja)
- Czech: považovat (cs), vážit si (cs)
- Danish: skatte
- Esperanto: alttaksi, valori
- Finnish: arvostaa (fi), pitää arvossa
- German: schätzen (de)
- Hebrew: העריך (he'eríkh)
- Hungarian: becsül (hu), értékel (hu)
- Italian: apprezzare (it), tenere in gran conto
- Japanese: 重視する (ja) (jūshi suru)
- Latin: dīligō
- Malay: hargai
- Maori: matapopore, kaingākau, kaingākaunui, whakamaioha
- Norwegian: verdsette, skatte
- Polish: cenić (pl)
- Portuguese: valorizar (pt)
- Russian: цени́ть (ru) impf (cenítʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: vrednovati (sh), cijeniti (sh), ceniti (sh)
- Spanish: valorar (es)
- Swedish: värdera (sv)
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See also
References
- “value”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- value in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “value”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “value”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Participle
value f sg
- feminine singular of valu
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French value.
Pronunciation
Noun
value (uncountable)
- Material or monetary worth.
Descendants
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