value

Syllables: val·ueUK/ˈvæl.juː/

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British/ˈval.jʉw/

value noun: the quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.

Noun

value (countable and uncountable, plural values)

The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
- There is tremendous value in a good education.
- An abacus is of little value when you have an electronic calculator.
Synonyms:

worth
(uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
- 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....2016 October 16, “Third Parties”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
(often, plural) 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
The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- The value of the stolen painting is estimated to be around four million pounds.
- 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.1825, John Ramsay McCulloch, Principles of Political Economy
The relative duration of a musical note.
- The value of a crotchet is twice that of a quaver.
The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
- When pigments of equal value are mixed together, the resulting color will be a darker value. This is the result of subtraction.2006, Edith Anderson Feisner, Colour: How to Use Colour in Art and Design
- Shadows and light move very quickly when you are painting on location. Use Cobalt Blue to quickly establish the painting's values.2010, Rose Edin, Dee Jepsen, Color Harmonies: Paint Watercolors Filled with Light
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
- 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 republic1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece
(in 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.
- The French have a high value for them ; and I confess they are often what they call delicate1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.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 […], published...
(obsolete) Valour.
- Who ſoone prepard to field, his ſword forth drew, / And him with equall valew counteruayld: […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 264

Verb

value (third-person singular simple present values, present participle valuing, simple past and past participle valued)

To determine or estimate the value of; to judge the worth of.
- I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.
- The property has been valued at six million pounds.
Synonyms:

appreciate, assess, evaluate, valuate, worthen, appraise, apprise, apprize, esteem, judge

Antonyms:

misappraise, undervalue
To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
- Gold was valued highly among the Romans.
- I value his advice.
Synonyms:

esteem, honor, look up to, respect, idolize, lay store by, prize, hallow, put store by, put store in

Antonyms:

despise, disesteem, contemn, despect, disrespect, disdain, look down on, misrespect, scorn, spurn
To hold dear; to cherish.
- I value these old photographs.
Synonyms:

treasure, prize, appreciate, bedear, cherish, esteem, hold dear, think much of

Antonyms:

despise

value meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

value in Hindi

ideal accepted by some individual or group: मूल्य mūlya
quality that renders something desirable or valuable: मूल्य mūlya, क़ीमत qīmat, क़द्र qadra
degree of importance given to something: मूल्य mūlya, क़द्र qadra
amount (of money, goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else: मूल्य mūlya, क़ीमत qīmat, कीमत kīmat

value in Tamil

பெறுமதி, பெறுமானம், மதிப்பு, முக்கியத்துவம், விலை, விழுமியம்

value in Marathi

ideal accepted by some individual or group: मूल्य mūlya
quality that renders something desirable or valuable: मूल्य mūlya
degree of importance given to something: मूल्य mūlya
amount (of money, goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else: मूल्य mūlya, किंमत kimmat

value in Urdu

quality that renders something desirable or valuable: قِیمَت qīmat, اَرْزِش arziś, شَرْحْ śarh

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value in Bengali: মূল্য mullo
value in Telugu: విలువ viluva, వెలకట్టు velakaṭṭu
value in Malayalam: മൂല്യം mūlyaṁ, വില vila
value in Kannada: ಆರ‍್ಪು, ಬೆಲೆ, ಉಪಯುಕ್ತತೆ, ಪ್ರಯೋಜನ
value in Punjabi: ਕਦਰ kadar
value in Gujarati: કિંમત kimmat
value in Sanskrit: निर्मा nirmā
value in Sinhala: අගය agaya
value in Assamese: মান man
value in Nepali: मूल्य, मान
value in Pashto: ارزش arzeš, ارزښت arzᶕẍt, بها bahā, قيمت qimat
value in Tagalog: balor
value in Arabic: قِيمَة qīma
value in Malay: nilai, dinilai
value in Persian: ارزشگذاری arzešgozâri, ارج نهادن arj nahâdan
value in Thai: ค่านิยม kâa-ní-yom, คุณค่า kun-kâa, ค่า kâa, มูลค่า muun-lá-kâa
value in Vietnamese: giá trị
value in Myanmar: အဖိုး a.hpui:

Examples of value in a sentence

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.2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn]...
GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

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Synonyms of value

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Forms of value

Noun
plural	values
Verb
third-person singular present	values
present participle	valuing
past participle	valued
past	valued

Past tense of value: valued

Plural of value: values

Origin of value

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”).

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Phrases with value

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Questions about value

What does value mean?: Value means the quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
What is value in Hindi?: Value in Hindi is मूल्य (mūlya), क़ीमत (qīmat), क़द्र (qadra). See Value meaning in Hindi.
How do you use value in a sentence?: 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.
What part of speech is value?: Value can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce value?: Value is pronounced /ˈvæl.juː/ (UK).
What is the plural of value?: The plural of value is values.

Words near value in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: value (page history and authors); value (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); value (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਕਦਰ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); કિંમત (Gujarati) (page history and authors); निर्मा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); අගය (Sinhala) (page history and authors); মান (Assamese) (page history and authors); value (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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