noun
definition
A personal possession such as jewellery, of relatively great monetary value; — usually used in plural form.
adjective
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Having a great value.
example
valuable gemstones
definition
Estimable; deserving esteem.
example
a valuable friend; a valuable companion
Examples of valuable in a Sentence
They selected the most valuable food items and buried them.
It makes you valuable and dangerous.
You've gained some valuable experience about how things can get out of control so quickly.
What's so valuable about the Lucky Pup Mine?
While some missing children reports listed a call number, many required a search that took valuable time.
Near the city are valuable coal mines, and there is one within the city limits.
The information was beyond valuable.
The work as a whole is considered very valuable.
Completely forgetting about the past is tossing away a valuable lesson.
The information was beyond valuable, and on a level that further altered Gabe's perception on Deidre.
It's where she'd keep something valuable.
Then why would the heirs think the mine was so valuable to go to court over it?
When she told them the valuable stuff I had, they asked for my telephone number.
These dates are valuable as enabling us to fix approximately the date of his birth, which must have occurred somewhere about 1370.
In accordance with the expressed desire of the philosopher, his tomb was marked by the figure of a sphere inscribed in a cylinder, the discovery of the relation between the volumes of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder being regarded by him as his most valuable achievement.
Lubeck was a peculiarly valuable possession.
Stevenson's The Crusaders in the East (Cambridge, 1907)is very valuable.
Von Sybel's Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges contains a full study of the authorities for the First Crusade; while the prefaces to Hagenmeyer's editions of the Gesta and of Ekkehard are also valuable.
In the same year Adrian Gerritsz published a valuable Paskaarte of the European Sea.
A great part of the island is clothed with dense forest, in which many valuable hardwood trees are found.
The region, which abounds in valuable rubber forests, was settled by Bolivians between 1870 and 1878, but was invaded by Brazilian rubber collectors during the next decade and became tributary to the rubber markets of Manaos and Para.
The leaves of species of Sansevieria yield a valuable fibre.
We have mentioned Lamarck before his great contemporary Cuvier because, in spite of his valuable philosophical doctrine of development, he was, as compared with Cuvier and estimated as a systematic zoologist, a mere enlargement and logical outcome of Linnaeus.
The suggestion requires further experimental testing, for which the case of the parthenogenetic production of a portion of the offspring, in such insects as the bee, offers a valuable opportunity for research.
Though an acquired or " superimposed " character is not transmitted to offspring as the consequence of the action of the external agencies which determine the " acquirement," yet the tendency to react to such agencies possessed by the parent is transmitted and may be increased and largely developed by survival, if the character developed by the reaction is valuable.
No canon of literary criticism can treat as valuable external evidence an attestation which first appears so many centuries after the supposed date of the poems.
In English we have, among others, the useful work of Perowne (5th ed., 1883), that of Lowe and Jennings, (2nd ed., 1885), and the valuable translation of Cheyne (1884).
A valuable historical source, though of small dimensions, is the Chronicle of Edessa, which gives a record of events from 132-131 B.C. to A.D.
Elias bar Shinaya, who in 1008 became Nestorian bishop of Nisibis, was the author of a valuable Chronicle, to which are prefixed numerous chronological tables, lists of popes, patriarchs, &c., and which covers by its narrative the period from A.D.
This work is a collection of lives of holy men who founded monasteries in the East, and is a valuable historical source.
A committee of the British Association in 1904 issued a valuable report on the subject.
We have also a valuable commentary (newly edited by P. Wessner) on five of the plays, derived chiefly from Euanthius and Donatus (both of the 4th century), and another of less importance by one Eugraphius.
The museum contains a valuable library and various collections, including antiquities and objects of art and natural history.
When at Rochester he appointed William Laud as his chaplain and gave him several valuable preferments.
His correspondence with Laud and with Sir Dudley Carleton and Sir Francis Windebank (Charles I.'s secretaries of state) are valuable sources for the history of the time.
As to the serfs the only indication was that three out of their huge retinue disappeared during the night, but nothing was stolen; and as to the value of their possessions, the thirty peasant carts that had come in from their estates and which many people envied proved to be extremely valuable and they were offered enormous sums of money for them.
There are few trees on the island, for most of the valuable indigenous trees have been practically exterminated, such as the sandalwood, which the earlier navigators found one of the most valuable products of the island.
The chief trade is in, and the principal exports are, palm oil and kernels, rubber, cotton, maize, groundnuts (Arachis), shea-butter from the Bassia parkii (Sapotaceae), fibres of the Raphia vinifera, and the Sansevieria guineensis, indigo, and kola nuts, ebony and other valuable wood.
He died on the 2nd of July 1816, having occupied his latter years in the composition and revision of an autobiography (published in 1817), which, with all its egotism and partiality, is a valuable work, and the chief authority for his life.
Very valuable work in devising forms of antennae for directive radio-telegraphy has been done by MM.
This from a Protestant historian like Goetz is most valuable criticism.
It is, however, as "the ship of the desert," without which vast tracts of the earth's surface could scarcely be explored, that the camel is specially valuable.
Matthias, as the next-door neighbour of the Turks, claimed the custody of so valuable a hostage, and would have used him as a means of extorting concessions from Bayezid.
Of the above the first is the best general sketch and is rich in notes; the second somewhat chauvinistic but excellently written; the third the best work for scholars; the seventh; eighth and eleventh are valuable as being by contemporaries.
Most large towns contain important state or communal archives, iii which a considerable amount of research is being done by local investigators; the various societies for local history (Societd di Storia Patria) do very good work and issue valuable publications; the treasures which the archives contain are by no means exhausted.
The Archivii storici and Deputazloni di storia patria of the various Italian towns and provinces contain a great deal of valuable material for local history.
Lincoln is situated in a productive grain region, and has valuable coal mines.
The villains, who formed the majority of the population, got very little from it; in fact the only clauses which protect them do so because they are property - the property of their lords - and therefore valuable.
This tree is widely spread and forms a valuable export to European markets.
He collected much valuable information on Graeco-Buddhist art and the origins of Indian art.