English Explanatory Dictionary

content

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Satisfied, pleased, contented.
noun
  1. Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
  2. Acquiescence without examination.
  3. That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
  4. An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
  5. A member who votes in assent.
intj
  1. Alright, agreed.
verb
  1. To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.
  2. To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
adj
  1. Contained.
noun
  1. That which is contained.
  2. Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
  3. One or more creative works.
  4. The potential of creative work for a content creator.
  5. The amount of material contained.
  6. Capacity for containing.
  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.
  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.

Pronunciation

kəntĕnt' /kənˈtɛnt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-content (verb).wav /ˈkɒn.tɛnt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-content (noun).wav /ˈkɔn.tɛnt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-content.wav kŏn'tĕnt /ˈkɑn.tɛnt/ en-us-content.ogg

Word forms

content more content contenter most content contentest contents contenting contented

Etymology

From Middle English contenten (“to satisfy”), from Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of continēre (“to contain”).

Synonyms

elate hearten beatify enrapture begladden blissen bright cheer fetch cheer up cherish content delight elevate enbliss exhilarate fain gay gladden gladden someone's heart gratify happify happy jollify laetificate light up make someone's day perk up please raise someone's spirits rejoice turn the frown upside down upcheer warm someone's heart warm the cockles of someone's heart contents

Derived words

miscontent uncontent noncontent contentive contently contentsome contentful contentless contentment contentness discontent malcontent to one's heart's content contentable adult content content clause content coupling content creator content determination content farm content filtering content-free content gap content house content key content knowledge content management system content mill content note content psychology content repository contentual content warn content warning contentwise content word content wrangling decontent e-content fat content geo-content geocontent Hausdorff content immunocontent learning content management system metacontent microcontent mixed raster content nontent open content sponcon sponsored content subcontent table of contents thin content water content web content

Translations

Arabic: مَضْمون Arabic: مَضامِين Arabic: مُحْتَوى Arabic: مُحْتَوَيات Armenian: բովանդակություն Azerbaijani: məzmun Bulgarian: съ́щност Chinese Mandarin: 內容 /内容 Czech: podstata Dutch: inhoud Esperanto: enhavo Esperanto: temo Finnish: sisältö Finnish: substanssi French: contenu Galician: teor Georgian: შიგთავსი Georgian: კონტენტი Georgian: შემცველობა Georgian: შინაარსი German: Stoff German: Inhalt Greek: περιεχόμενο Ancient Greek: τύπος Hindi: विषय Hungarian: tartalom Italian: contenuto Japanese: コンテンツ Korean: 콘텐츠 Northern Kurdish: naverok Latin: materia Latin: materies Latvian: saturs Māori: kiko Norwegian Bokmål: innhold Norwegian Nynorsk: innhald Pannonian Rusyn: змист Polish: treść Portuguese: conteúdo Romanian: conținut Russian: содержа́ние Russian: су́щность Russian: су́ть Russian: конте́нт Scottish Gaelic: susbaint Serbo-Croatian: са̏држа̄ј Serbo-Croatian: sȁdržāj Slovak: náplň Spanish: materia Spanish: contenido Spanish: tenor Tagalog: laman Tagalog: nilalaman Turkish: içerik Turkmen: material Ukrainian: зміст Ukrainian: вміст Ukrainian: суть Vietnamese: nội dung
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