<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Relative worth, merit, or importance: He knows the value of a college education.</li><li>Monetary or material worth, as in commerce or trade: This piece of land has greatly increased in value.</li><li>The worth of something in terms of the amount of other things for which it can be exchanged or in terms of some medium of exchange: A weekly allowance can help children understand the value of money.</li><li>Equivalent worth or return in money, material, services, etc.: Employees agree to give value for value received and to perform their duties in an efficient and workmanlike manner.</li><li>Estimated or assigned worth; valuation: The painting has a current value of $500,000, according to Sotheby’s.</li><li>Denomination, as of a monetary issue or a postage stamp: The 10-cent values of this 1940 U.S. stamp series were issued in lesser quantities than the 2-cent and 1-cent values.</li><li>Mathematics: magnitude; quantity; number represented by a figure, symbol, or the like: the value of an angle; the value of x; the value of a sum.</li><li>A point in the range of a function; a point in the range corresponding to a given point in the domain of a function: The value of x² at 2 is 4.</li><li>Import or meaning; force; significance: The value of a word depends partly on its user and context.</li><li>Favorable regard; liking: Some of my immigrant students seemed not to share my high value of their culture.</li><li>Sociology: the attitudes, behaviors, social structures, etc., toward which the people of a society or group have a deeply ingrained, positive or negative emotional regard: In the prevailing American system of values, personal liberty is cherished, while lying to the public is condemned.</li><li>Ethics: any object or quality desirable as a means or as an end in itself.</li><li>Fine Arts: degree of lightness or darkness in a color: In this painting, he pairs greens of different value with the occasional touch of a complementary color.</li><li>The relation of light and shade in a painting, drawing, or the like.</li><li>Music: the relative length or duration of a tone signified by a note: In a triplet, the three eighth notes have the same value as two in duple meter.</li><li>Values, Mining: the marketable portions of an orebody: The rock must then be processed to extract the values from the ore.</li><li>Phonetics: quality; the phonetic equivalent of a letter, as the sound of a in hat, sang, etc.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) Valued, valuing. To regard or esteem highly: He values her friendship.</li><li>To calculate or reckon the monetary value of; give a specified material or financial value to; assess; appraise: The company values its assets at 80 million dollars.</li><li>To consider with respect to worth, excellence, usefulness, or importance: Don’t rush to decide on this option without first valuing the advantages of privacy and control against the higher cost.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>Price</li><li>Cost</li><li>Prize</li></ul>