valuable
having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,791 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,943 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange a valuable diamond
- having worth or merit or value also: worthful a valuable frienda good and worthful man
noun
- something of value all our valuables were stolen
valuable in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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A thought, therefore, like a pound of cotton, must be well spun out to be valuable.
The Attaché · Thomas Chandler Haliburton · Chapter 1
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Slaves are valuable property, and if they are overworked or badly cared for they decrease in value.
With Lee in Virginia · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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From the master's cabin, I also pilfered other valuable trifles and, stealthily sliding down a rope, went ashore.
The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction · 20-66 Petronius Arbiter · Chapter 1
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The sentinel, mounted on a valuable horse, and more than two hundred yards ahead of his serafile, came up to him.
The Countess of Saint Geran Celebrated Crimes · Alexandre Dumas · Chapter 1
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He contented himself, therefore, with acquiring an estate that should be valuable, rather from its quality and beauty, than from its extent.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish · James Fenimore Cooper · Chapter 1