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worth
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w???/
- (General American) IPA(key): /w??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)?, -?(?)?
Etymology 1
From Middle English worth, from Old English weorþ, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz (“worthy, valuable”); from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
Cognate with Dutch waard (adjective), Low German weert (adjective), German wert, Wert, Swedish värd, Welsh gwerth.
Adjective
worth (not comparable)
- Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
- Deserving of.
- (obsolete, except in Scots) Valuable, worthwhile.
- Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
Usage notes
The modern adjectival senses of worth compare two noun phrases, prompting some sources to classify the word as a preposition. Most, however, list it an adjective, some with notes like "governing a noun with prepositional force." Fowler's Modern English Usage says, "the adjective worth requires what is most easily described as an object."
Joan Maling (1983) shows that worth is best analysed as a preposition rather than an adjective. CGEL (2002) analyzes it as an adjective.
Compare:
- Organic strawberries are worth paying extra money for.
- It's worth paying extra money for organic strawberries.
When "worth" is used as an adjective of a subject, the verb "to be" (usually associated with "worth") is singular or plural in accordance with the subject (in the first example, in the plural). In the other case, shown in the second example, the subject is the pronoun "it".
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
worth (countable and uncountable, plural worths)
- (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.
- stocks having a worth of two million pounds
- (uncountable) Merit, excellence.
- Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.
- (uncountable) Wealth, fortune, riches, property, possessions.
- (uncountable) An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English worthen, wurthen, werthen (“to be; exist; come into being; come into existence”), from Old English weorþan (“to come into being; be made; become; arise; be”), from Proto-West Germanic *werþan, from Proto-Germanic *werþan? (“to come about; happen; come into being; become”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn; turn out”).
Cognate with Dutch worden, Low German warrn, German werden, Old Norse verða (Norwegian verta, Swedish varda), Latin vertere.
Alternative forms
- word
Verb
worth (third-person singular simple present worths, present participle worthing, simple past worth or worthed, past participle worth or worthed or worthen)
- (obsolete, except in set phrases) To be, become, betide.
- 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.
- (May good fortune befall you, my friend.)
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 3, "Landlord Edmund"
Derived terms
- forworth
References
- worth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- worth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- worth at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Joan Maling (1983), Transitive Adjectives: A Case of Categorial Reanalysis, in F. Henry and B. Richards (eds.), Linguistic Categories: Auxiliaries and Related Puzzles, vol.1, pp. 253-289.
Anagrams
- throw, whort, wroth
Scots
Etymology
From Old English weorþ
Adjective
worth (comparative mair worth, superlative maist worth)
- Valuable, worth while.
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standing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?stænd??/
Etymology 1
From Middle English standynge, stondynge, standende, stondinde, standande, stondande, from Old English standende, stondende, from Proto-Germanic *standandz (“standing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *standan? (“to stand”), equivalent to stand +? -ing.
Verb
standing
- present participle of stand
- 1991, Backdraft
- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
- 1991, Backdraft
Adjective
standing (not comparable)
- Erect, not cut down.
- Performed from an erect position.
- standing ovation
- Remaining in force or status.
- standing committee
- Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
- standing water
- Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
- a standing colour
- Not movable; fixed.
- a standing bed, distinguished from a trundle-bed
- the standing rigging of a ship
Antonyms
- (stagnant): moving, working (committees)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English standyng, stonding, stondung, from Old English *standung, equivalent to stand +? -ing.
Noun
standing (countable and uncountable, plural standings)
- Position or reputation in society or a profession.
- 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)[1]
- The males constantly test their standing, looking to move up in the hierarchy.
- 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)[1]
- Duration.
- The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
- I will provide you and your fellows of a good standing to see his entry
- I think in deep mire, where there is no standing.;
- (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
- (Britain) Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
- 1992, P. D. James, The Children of Men, page 28:
- "There was no garage at Lathbury Road, but we had standing for two cars in front of the house."
- 2000, Bob Breen, Mission Accomplished, East Timor, page 149:
- "The engineering crisis boiled down to roads, hard standing, and waste."
- 1992, P. D. James, The Children of Men, page 28:
- (law) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.
- (Britain, slang, obsolete) The location on a street where a market trader habitually operates.
- Synonym: pitch
Derived terms
- class standing
- hard standing
- good standing
Translations
References
- (market trader's pitch): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Cebuano
Etymology
From English standing.
Noun
standing
- in bato lata; an instance where the can is standing upright and, still in play, after being hit and pushed out of its ring
Faroese
Etymology
standa (“to stand”) +? -ing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?stant??k]
Noun
standing f (genitive singular standingar, uncountable)
- erection
Declension
Synonyms
- reðurstøða
French
Etymology
From English standing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??.di?/
Noun
standing m (plural standings)
- standing, status
- Level of quality or comfort, especially about real estate
- appartement de grand standing
Further reading
- “standing” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?tandin/, [es?t?ãn?.d??n]
Noun
standing m (plural standings)
- status, standing, class
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