'Worth the while' definitions:
Definition of 'Worth the while'
From: GCIDE
- Worth \Worth\, a. [OE. worth, wur[thorn], AS. weor[eth], wurE; akin to OFries. werth, OS. wer[eth], D. waard, OHG. werd, G. wert, werth, Icel. ver[eth]r, Sw. v[aum]rd, Dan. v[ae]rd, Goth. wa['i]rps, and perhaps to E. wary. Cf. Stalwart, Ware an article of merchandise, Worship.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- It was not worth to make it wise. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for. [1913 Webster]
- A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- All our doings without charity are nothing worth. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. [1913 Webster]
- If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me. --Beattie. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense. [1913 Webster]
- To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- This is life indeed, life worth preserving. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of. [1913 Webster]
- At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty hundred crowns. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Worth while, or Worth the while. See under While, n. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Worth the while'
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- Worth while,
- Worthful,
- Worthing,
- Fort Worth,
- Lake Worth,
- Money's worth,
- Not worth a cress,
- Not worth a curse,
- Not worth a hair,
- Not worth a kers,
- Not worth a rap,
- Not worth the candle,
- Present worth,
- Woe worth,
- Worth County,
- Worth, GA,
- Worth, IA,
- Worth, IL,
- Worth, MO,
- Worthing, SD,
- net worth,
- Fort Worth, TX,
- Lake Worth Corridor,
- Lake Worth, FL,
- Lake Worth, TX,
- Worth County, GA,
- Worth County, IA,
- Worth County, MO,
- charles frederick worth,
- not worth a day's purchase,
- self-worth,
- Lake Worth Corridor, FL,
- Worth so many years' purchase