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Meaning content meaning

What does content mean?
Definitions in simple English

content Noun

— The contents of a container, such as a bag, a file, a book etc., are the things that are in it. A couple of green plastic bags had torn open, and the contents had spilled out onto the floor. Scientists examined the contents of the dead bird's stomach. The students were generally happy with the course content and the instructor. More writing could improve students' content knowledge as well as their writing skills. — The fat, water, alcohol, etc. content of something is the amount of that substance in something else. The red wine had a deep color and high alcohol content. — Content is the feeling of being happy and satisfied. She could sleep to her heart's content.

content Adjective

— If someone is content, they are happy and satisfied. She had always been perfectly content to live in the city. Women with many friends are actually less content with their lives than those with a smaller group of friends.

content Verb

— If somebody contents themselves with something, they accept it even though they wanted something different.

content

— noun everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something he emptied the contents of his pockets the two groups were similar in content — noun (= message) what a communication that is about something is about — noun the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc — verb satisfy in a limited way He contented himself with one glass of beer per day — verb make content I am contented — noun the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned — noun (= capacity) the amount that can be contained the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons — noun (= contentedness) the state of being contented with your situation in life he relaxed in sleepy contentedness they could read to their heart's content — noun (= subject) something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject — adjective (= contented) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are a contented smile

Synonyms content synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as content?

content English » English

satisfied satisfy pleased substance contented happy subject matter satisfaction please gratify glad message capacity volume subject full essence delight contentment contentedness complacent theme table of contents mental object meet with meaning make content joyful gratified gist depicted object contents cognitive content topic suffice satiated satiate sate rejoice pleasure merry material indulge gratification filling delighted communication cheerful cheer assuage

Topics content topics

What do people use content to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel good

Happy
Language and thought Communication Language

Information
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Like, love

Contentment

Conjugation content conjugation

How do you conjugate content?

content · verb

Examples content examples

How do I use content in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I'm content with my salary.
Show me the content of your book shelves and I will tell you who you are.
She was carrying her purchase in a plastic bag. It bursted and all its content fell on the ground.
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
Robert is content with his present position.
The popularity of a web site depends on its content.
The dictator abused his privileges to his heart's content.
The content of the letter had an interesting effect on my marriage.
Oranges have a high vitamin content.
Are you content with your present salary?
Are you content with your position in the company?
I am content with my job.
The content of his speech is not relevant to the subject.
He is not content with his present salary.
She sang to her heart's content.
Jane is very content with her job and has no desire to quit it.
We enjoyed the party to our heart's content.
I must be content with my present salary.
The content of his speech was interesting.
He was never content with his success.

Movie subtitles

But Yongle was not content with Nanjing.
It's what I wanted to do originally, too, is, you know, be by myself, take care of myself, do my own thing, and I got that, so pretty content.
I'm not at all content about there being a separate entrance for the Family Contraceptive Clinic.
I shall be quite content with that boucle coat and skirt I've borrowed.
From the content, it seems to be one of her former students.
You will have to be content with my company, Ludwig.
Mr. Harker, though I have devoted my life to the study of the strangest things, little known facts that the world is perhaps better off not knowing, a world content to busy itself instead with mundane affairs.
You want things, and you're not content until you get them.
I tell you, Mr. Holmes, you can be fully content with me.
You've been content in the shadows while I basked in the spotlight simply because it's held us together.
And I'm content in England.
Why do you think he's content with so little, Papa?
You're content to go on as we are. - Alice.
Den it shall also content me.
We serve God and are content.
In ordinary life, one must be content with less.
Content to settle down here and get nothing personal out of life.
Those of you who are not English. will have to be content with fighting for Capt. Blood. and the loot you'll find on the French ships.
Well, I must say you are content with very little.
Will you be content now, Concha?
I swear before God and before this court that was the content of my talk with Christian.
Oh, my love! I am so content and happy when I'm with you. Just like a nestling dove.
Not content with that, you've got the effrontery to lie.
I'm content.
Its content excited him.
It's all very clear: content of the exciting letter, the red one, the blue one.
But if you are content to stay here like a dumb animal in this miserable life, then I wash my hands from you.
And you've been right, if you have set much hope into the tone and the content of this word.
Go ahead. It's all very clear: content of the exciting letter, the red one, the blue one.
I am content to remain silent the rest of my few days on Earth.
Den it sall also content me.
So, are you content, my dear?
I will be content even if it is a kitten.
Nought's had, all's spent, where our desire is got without content.
You're not content just to be a singer.
I am most content. Full up.
I will be content with a life of a symbolic marriage.

News and current affairs

Stalin was content to settle for an empire in Eastern Europe.
But the Stability Pact is merely a shell - it needs to be filled with content.
Moreover, cultural differences impede any broad agreements on regulating online content.
To identify, prevent, and counteract the causes and consequences of work-related stress, we need to monitor job content, working conditions, terms of employment, social relations at work, health, well-being and productivity.
A renewed emphasis on stimulus must be augmented by global coordination on the timing and content of stimulus measures.
All of this applies just to the way the medium works, without taking content into consideration.
Second, the government can use technical means to deny people access to undesired content.
But nowadays most members of the middle class seem content to exchange complacency for economic growth.
The group consistently posts content that challenges the possibility of coexistence between Islam and the West and calls young people to jihad.
And yet, as memories of World War II fade, more and more people in the Netherlands and Scandinavia feel content to be under Germany's powerful wings.
Like Don Quixote - and Cervantes himself - the artist dreams of other rules and rewards than his fellow men, who are content to digest their everyday lives.
Fourth, if US diplomacy changes in style and content, will Europe be ready to face the challenge when America calls for help?
As a result, a proliferation of financial providers is likely, with particularly bright prospects for institutional partnerships that combine the more agile existing platforms with exciting new content and approaches.
Or they could be content with whichever of the three strategies that they expected to see, agreeing that, in any case, fiscal policy was always going to be much better than it would have been under Democratic rule.
In the Middle East, despite Obama's vow to re-start the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, progress remained stymied by differences over the scope and content of an agreement and how to bring it about.
Both the tone and the content of the China-US relationship are a cause for concern.
The American diplomats' arguments about process did not on the whole carry over into disagreement about the content of a peace deal.
But the view that defending free speech imposes a duty to disseminate specific content is deeply problematic.
For example, while endlessly worrying about the existence of dangerous material online, we could do more to educate our youth in the critical thinking skills needed to dismiss such content.
Third, it is essential to remove online extremist content promptly.
Cyber intrusion in peacetime allows the prowler to read the content and understand the relative importance of different computer networks so that it knows what to disable in a conflict situation.
In the interest of promoting Sino-American cooperation against terrorism the Chinese government has toned down the emotional content of its anti-American rhetoric.
Casual observers of today's freewheeling offerings of sex, crime, drugs, violence, and banal game shows on Chinese TV might come away with the impression that most of the shackles have been removed from televised content.
To be sure, this impression disappears if one focuses on explicit political content.
Given the staggering amount of programming needed to fill the time slots, content monitoring must be implemented with maximum efficiency.

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