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See also:valuéandvalúe

English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishvalew,value, fromOld Frenchvalue, feminine past participle ofvaloir, fromLatinvalēre(“be strong, be worth”), fromProto-Italic*walēō, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂welh₁-(“to be strong”).

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Noun

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value (countable anduncountable,pluralvalues)

  1. Thequality that renders something desirable orvaluable;worth.
    Synonyms:worth;see alsoThesaurus:value
    There is tremendousvalue in a good education.
    An abacus is of littlevalue when you have an electronic calculator.
    • 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, inBBC Sport:
      United werevalue for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, withPaul Scholes also striking the post in the second half.
  2. (uncountable) Thedegree ofimportance given to something.
    Thevalue of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
    • 2016 October 16, “Third Parties”, inLast Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode26,John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
      Okay, for the record, and this is probably obvious, those three departments do actually do thingsof 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 tobe 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.
  3. (often plural) That which is valued or highlyesteemed, such as one'smorals, morality, orbelief system.
    He does not share his parents'values.
    familyvalues
    • 2013 June 7,Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume188, number26, page18:
      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 professedvalues and actual foreign policies.
  4. Theamount (ofmoney orgoods orservices) that is considered to be a fairequivalent for something else.
    Thevalue of the stolen painting is estimated to be around four million pounds.
    • 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 exchangeablevalue.
    • 1695,C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated byJohn Dryden,De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […],→OCLC:
      His design was not to pay him thevalue of his pictures, because they were above any price.
    • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:
      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 totalvalue of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
  5. (music) The relativeduration of a musical note.
    Thevalue of acrotchet is twice that of aquaver.
  6. (art) The relativedarkness orlightness of a color in (a specific area of) apainting etc.
    • 2006, Edith Anderson Feisner,Colour: How to Use Colour in Art and Design:
      When pigments of equalvalue are mixed together, the resulting color will be a darkervalue. 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.
  7. (mathematics, physics) Any definitenumericalquantity or other mathematicalobject, determined by being measured,computed, or otherwisedefined.
    The exactvalue ofpi cannot be represented indecimal notation.
  8. Precisemeaning;import.
    thevalue of a word; thevalue 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 thevalue of a passage of Livy , marking , in a few words , most strongly the desolation of Italy under the Roman republic
  9. (in theplural) The valuableingredients to be obtained by treating amass orcompound; specifically, theprecious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
    The vein carries goodvalues.
    thevalues on the hanging walls
  10. (obsolete) Esteem;regard.
    • 1700,[John] Dryden, “Preface”, inFables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
      The French have a highvalue for them ; and I confess they are often what they call delicate
    • a.1716 (date written),[Gilbert] Burnet, edited by[Gilbert Burnet Jr.],Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published1724,→OCLC:
      My relation to the person was so near, and myvalue for him so great.
  11. (obsolete)Valour.
    Alternative form:(obsolete)valew

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Translations

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quality that renders something desirable or valuable—see alsogood value
degree of importance given to something
amount (of money, goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
relative duration of a musical note
relative darkness or lightness of a color
numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed
ideal accepted by some individual or group
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Verb

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value (third-person singular simple presentvalues,present participlevaluing,simple past and past participlevalued)

  1. Todetermine orestimate the value of; to judge theworth of.
    Synonyms:appreciate,assess,evaluate,valuate,worthen;see alsoThesaurus:appraise
    Antonyms:misappraise,undervalue
    I will have the family jewelsvalued by a professional.
    The property has beenvalued at six million pounds.
    • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:
      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 tovalue it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
  2. Toregardhighly;thinkmuch of; placeimportance upon.
    Synonyms:esteem,honor,look up to,respect;see alsoThesaurus:revere
    Antonyms:despise,disesteem;see alsoThesaurus:despise
    Gold wasvalued highly among the Romans.
    Ivalue his advice.
  3. Tohold dear; tocherish.
    Synonyms:treasure,prize;see alsoThesaurus:hold dear
    Antonym:despise
    Ivalue these old photographs.

Translations

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to estimate the value of
to fix or determine the value of
to regard highly
to hold dear
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Participle

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value f sg

  1. femininesingular ofvalu

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchvalue.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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value (uncountable)

  1. Material or monetaryworth.

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