worth
/wɝθ/ noun C2- 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.
- Merit, excellence. · Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.
- An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.
Plural worths
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And she said if the foundation was shaky we could never build anything really worth while on it.
However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.”
Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.’
It was worth while, truly,” added the young man with a melancholy smile, “to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.”
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