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valuables

valuables

2.0
Things like money or jewellery that are worth a lot to someone
  • noun
  • /ˈvæljuːəblz/
translation icon : objetos de valor
  • Make sure to keep your valuables in a safe place when traveling to avoid theft.

Especially when you think you hand in deceased items, valuables, gold rings, watches and stuff like that.

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Examples

  • Those who try to leave have their valuables, gold, silver, cooking pots, salt confiscated by nationalist sentries.

  • Assets including art objects and other valuables all over the world became targets for Japanese buyers.

  • If I dropped my valuable possessions on top of you, they would all break.

  • So someone could look and see your valuable stuff in those inches and steal it.

  • It's the size for me and the zip pocket for your valuables, which is already also a very decent size.

  • Especially when you think you hand in deceased items, valuables, gold rings, watches and stuff like that.

  • By showing off our fancy new toys, we think we're communicating our values to the world, but we're confusing our valuables with our values.

  • One is they're perhaps getting possessions and valuables out of the speaker's house, which is on the left hand side wall here behind this wall.

  • And with this method, we've already built robots that can save your life, leap tall buildings in a single bound, move with super speed, protect your valuables and shape shift.

  • After the party, she realized she had left her valuables on the dining table.

Synonyms

treasure
vsvaluables
676 1.1

Valuable items like gold or jewels that people keep

is used for ordinary possessions worth a lot rather than rare, specially cherished items
valuable
vsvaluables
44 2.8

Things worth a lot of money, like jewelry or important papers

is the plural form referring to multiple such possessions rather than one

Antonyms

373 1.1

Old or broken things that are no longer useful

298 3.0

Has no value or use

How Valuable

treasure
676 1.1
valuables
2.0
belongings
1 1.0

Surface Forms

valuable singular
valuables plural

Morphology

valuables = valuable (transparent) = value + able + s

The plural is a regular plural '-s' added to the recognizable base 'valuable' (an item of value).

Etymology

Valuables comes from the English word value, which goes back to an old Latin word valere meaning 'be strong' or 'be worth'. So valuables are things that 'are worth' a lot or are very important to someone.