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content¹ Definition

con·tent (kən tent′)

adjective

  1. happy enough with what one has or is; not desiring something more or different; satisfied
  2. willing: used in the British House of Lords as an affirmative vote
  3. Archaic pleased

Etymology: OFr < L contentus, pp. of continere: see contain

transitive verb

to make content; satisfy: often used reflexively

noun

contentment

content² Definition

con·tent (kän′tent′)

noun

    1. all that is contained in something; everything inside the contents of a jar, trunk, etc.
    2. all that is contained or dealt with in a writing or speech a table of contents
    1. all that is dealt with in a course or area of study, work of art, discussion, etc.
    2. essential meaning; substance the content of a poem as distinguished from its form
  3. Rare
    1. a holding power; capacity
    2. volume or area
  4. the amount (of a specified substance) contained iron with a high carbon content

Etymology: ME < ML contentum (pl. contenta), orig. neut. pp. of L continere: see contain

content Synonyms

content

modif.

appeased, gratified, comfortable; see happy 1, satisfied. See syn. study at satisfied.

content Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • skip: Skip the content and go to the main contact details for Birmingham university President's introduction This is your charter.

Adjective modifier

  • fat: Much most effective way to limit calorie intake, therefore, is to reduce the fat content of the diet.
  • entire: You can view the entire contents of this website without registering or ( if you have registered ) without logging in.
  • main: Please scroll down to see the main content of this page.
  • digital: Arguing for one institutional archive for digital contents is akin to calling for a single web site for an institution.
  • editorial: Under current OFCOM regulations the advertiser cannot affect the editorial content of the programs.
  • recycled: It is not always easy to determine the recycled fiber content.

Modifies a noun

  • copyright: Site Search All content copyright © The University of Edinburgh 2006.
  • provider: This optional feature allows content providers to limit the scope of their labels to their own domains.
  • creation: In the world of content creation this means that people with narrow skills bases need to work together to create marketable content.

Noun used with modifier

  • moisture: Each material has its own wholly specific equilibrium moisture content.
  • outline: Outline content: Spiders are common in a wide range of terrestrial habitats and are of major importance in biological pest control.
  • multimedia: This creates an extremely attractive market for MVNO operators that can provide unique mobile communications services with various specialized features and multimedia contents.
  • salt: Don't add salt to your food when cooking and at the table and be more aware of the salt content of pre-prepared foods.
  • mineral: Another experiment examined yield, vitamin and mineral content of organic and conventional potatoes and sweet corn over 3 years [ 4 ] .
  • web: The Customer may wish to use one of the available filtering software products to help prevent access to certain web content.

Preposition: of

  • websites: ACT is not responsible for the content of external websites or message board postings.
  • website: The Editor claims copyright in the content of the website.
  • site: RM is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

Preposition: by

  • rights-holders: They do not constitute any form of endorsement of this site or its contents by the rights-holders concerned.
content Quotes

Les oeuvres les plus belles sont celles o  u' il y a le moins de matie'  re; plus l'expression se rapproche de la pense¤  e, plus le mot colle dessus et dispara|"t, plus c'est beau. Je crois que l'avenir de l'art est dans ces voies. The most beautiful works are those that have the least content; the closer the expression is to the thought, the more indistinguishable the word from the content, the more beautiful is the work. I believe that the future of art lies in this direction.

—Flaubert, Gustave

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

—Weil, Simone

The atrocious crime of being a young man, which [Walpole] has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies cease with their youth, and not of those who continue ignorant in spite of their age and experience.

—Pitt,William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder

An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!

—Thomson,James pseudonym 'BV',ByssheVanolis

Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

—Heywood,Thomas

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.

—Addison,Joseph

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.

—Sidney, Sir Philip

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor. In the end you have to be content with his common humanity.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Let us draw upon content for the deficiencies of fortune.

—Goldsmith, Oliver

Le colonialisme ne se satisfait pas d'enserrer le peuple dans ses mailles, de vider le cerveau colonise¤   de toute forme et de tout contenu. Par une sorte de perversion de la logique, il s'oriente vers le passe¤   du peuple opprime¤  , le distort, le de¤  figure, l'ane¤  antit. Colonialismisnot satisfiedmerely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. Bya kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.

—Fanon, Frantz Omar

There are passages of Ulysses which can be read only in the toiletöif one wants to extract the full flavour of their content.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Looking back, I am content.Win or lose I have told you the truth as I see it. I have said what I meant and meant what I said.

—Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.

—Burke, Edmund

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

—Cupitt, Rev Don

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

—Whitman,Walt(er)