worth

1. (countable, uncountable) Value.Examples: "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; £2 million worth of stock"countableuncountable

2. (uncountable) Merit, excellence.Examples: "Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged."; "Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority."uncountable

3. (uncountable) An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.Examples: "Although most modern OTDR equipment can store at least eight days' worth of data (in line with current industry standards), when it was downloaded from the Class 57s involved, it was discovered they had stored just over eight hours' worth of data."uncountable

4. (uncountable, obsolete) High social standing, noble rank.Examples: "VVhat bee they men of any worth or no? […] No my good Lord, they bee men of no great account, For they bee none but Tylers, Thatchers, Millers, and ſuch like."obsoleteuncountable

1. (obsolete, except in set phrases or dialectal) To be, become, betide.Examples: "Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day."; "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."obsolete

1. (countable) A surname.countable