Meaning

The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth..

Definitions by Sense

1. The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
2. (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
3. (often plural) That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
4. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
5. (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
6. (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
7. (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
8. Precise meaning; import.

Example Sentences

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.

The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.

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.

He does not share his parents' values.

family values

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.

Word Forms

• values
• valuing
• valued

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