content

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Etymology 1Edit

From Latin contentus (“satisfied, content”), past participle of continere (“to hold in, contain”); see contain.

PronunciationEdit

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.tɛnt/
• (US) enPR: kŏn'tĕnt, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.tɛnt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

NounEdit

content (countable and uncountable, plural contents)

1. (uncountable) That which is contained.
   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27: 

     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.

2. Subject matter; substance.
   • Grew

     I shall prove these writings […] authentic, and the contents true, and worthy of a divine original.

3. The amount of material contained; contents.
4. Capacity for holding.
   • Francis Bacon

     Strong ships, of great content.

5. (mathematics) 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).

TranslationsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English, from Old French content, from Latin contentus (“satisfied, content”), past participle of continere (“to hold in, contain”); see contain.

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: kəntĕnt', IPA^(key): /kənˈtɛnt/

AdjectiveEdit

content (comparative more content, superlative most content)

1. Satisfied; in a state of satisfaction.
   • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:

     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.

Derived termsEdit

• contentment

SynonymsEdit

• (satisfied): contented, pleased, satisfied

TranslationsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

From Old French contente (“content, contentment”), from contenter; see content as a verb.

NounEdit

content (plural contents)

1. Satisfaction; contentment

   They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.

   • Shakespeare

     Such is the fullness of my heart's content.

2. (obsolete) acquiescence without examination
   • Alexander Pope

     The sense they humbly take upon content.

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

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

4. (UK, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmate vote.
5. (UK, House of Lords) A member who votes in assent.

Derived termsEdit

• discontent
• malcontent

Etymology 4Edit

From Old French contenter, from Medieval Latin contentare (“to satisfy”), from Latin contentus (“satisfied, content”); see content as an adjective.

VerbEdit

content (third-person singular simple present contents, present participle contenting, simple past and past participle contented)

1. (transitive) To give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to gratify; to appease.

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

   • Bible, Mark xv. 15

     Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them.

   • I. Watts

     Do not content yourselves with obscure and confused ideas, where clearer are to be attained.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
   • Shakespeare

     Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.

TranslationsEdit

External linksEdit

• content in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• content in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin contentus.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tɑ̃/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophones: comptant, contant, contents

AdjectiveEdit

content m (feminine contente, masculine plural contents, feminine plural contentes)

1. content, satisfied, pleased

VerbEdit

content

1. third-person plural present indicative of conter
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of conter

External linksEdit

• "content" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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EtymologyEdit

From Latin contentus (“having been held together, contained”), from contineō, continēre (“hold or keep together, surround, contain”).

AdjectiveEdit

content m (feminine contente, masculine plural contents, feminine plural contentes)

1. happy

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AdjectiveEdit

content m (feminine singular contente, masculine plural contens, feminine plural contentes)

1. happy; satisfied; content