content — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Satisfied, pleased, contented.

   Examples

   More examples (2)

   This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.

   You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're brave, compassionate, kind: a content man. That is your secret—contentment; I am 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit, and I don't even know what I am chasing.

Noun

1. Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.

   Usage

   • Uncountable

   Examples

   They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.

   ‘It is very difficult to […] learn to seek content, instead of happiness.’

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   ‘I understand you—upon every other subject, but the only one, my content requires, you are ready to obey me.’

   Like an empress, I feel great content surrounded by the familiar sounds of laughter, bickering, rattling plates, clicking chopsticks, smacking lips, and noisy sipping of the longevity brew.

   Such is the fullness of my heart's content.

   Kleph moved slowly from the door and sank upon the chaise longue with a little sigh of content.

2. Acquiescence without examination.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   The sense they humbly take upon content.

3. That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.

   Usage

   • Uncountable

   Examples

   So will I in England work your grace's full content.

4. An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • Uncountable

5. A member who votes in assent.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • metonymically
   • Uncountable

Interjection

1. Alright, agreed.

   Usage

   • Archaic

Verb

1. To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   elatehearten

   Examples

   You can't have any more. You'll have to content yourself with what you already have.

   And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

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   Do not content yourselves with meer Words and Names, lest your laboured Improvements only amass a heap of unintelligible Phrases, and you feed upon Husks instead of Kernels.

   Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy recommend rigatoni in the Geometry of Pasta, and Christopher Boswell, the chef behind the Rome Sustainable Food project, prefers wholemeal paccheri or rigatoni in his book Pasta, on the basis that “the flavour of the whole grain is strong enough to stand up to the sharp and salty sheep’s milk cheese” (as I can find neither easily, I have to content myself with brown penne instead).

2. To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

   Examples

   Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.

Adjective

1. Contained.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

Noun

1. That which is contained.

   Usage

   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   contents

2. Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   Although eloquently delivered, the content of the speech was objectionable.

   You can look up the chapter on special relativity in the table of contents.

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   Hugh admitting that he never had, and moreover that he couldn’t read, Mrs Varden declared with much severity, that he ought to he even more ashamed of himself than before, and strongly recommended him to save up his pocket-money for the purchase of one, and further to teach himself the contents with all convenient diligence.

   In the future, instead of bottles of dead "content," I imagine electronically defined venues, where minds residing in bodies scattered all over the planet are admitted, either by subscription or a ticket at a time, into the real-time presence of the creative act.

   The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

3. Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc. One or more creative works.

   Usage

   • broadly
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   Some online video creators upload new content every day.

   Prolific creators manage their voluminous content with any of various content management systems.

4. Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc. One or more creative works. The potential of creative work for a content creator.

   Usage

   • Internet
   • broadly
   • Colloquial
   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   He moved to California for the content.

5. The amount of material contained.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   Light beer has a lower alcohol content than regular beer.

6. Capacity for containing.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   Strong ships, of great content.

7. The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

8. The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable
   • of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain

Adjective

1. satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are

   Synonyms

   contented

   Examples

   a contented smile

1. (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something

   Synonyms

   contents

   Broader terms

   collectionaggregationaccumulationassemblage

   Examples

   he emptied the contents of his pockets

   the two groups were similar in content

2. content communicating a message; what something is about

   Synonyms

   messagesubject mattersubstance

   Broader terms

   communication

3. the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.

   Broader terms

   proportion

4. the amount that can be contained

   Synonyms

   capacity

   Broader terms

   volume

   Examples

   the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons

5. the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

   Synonyms

   cognitive contentmental object

   Broader terms

   cognitionknowledgenoesis

6. something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation

   Synonyms

   subjectdepicted object

   Broader terms

   thing

   Examples

   a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject

1. the state of being contented with your situation in life

   Synonyms

   contentedness

   Broader terms

   acceptance

   Examples

   he relaxed in sleepy contentedness

   they could read to their heart's content

Verb

1. satisfy in a limited way

   Broader terms

   fitconform tomeetsatisfyfillfulfillfulfil

   Examples

   He contented himself with one glass of beer per day

2. make content

   Antonyms

   discontent

   Broader terms

   satisfygratify

   Examples

   I am contented