content

Adjective (1)

content (comparative more content or contenter, superlative most content or contentest)

1. Satisfied, pleased, contented.
   • 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.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
   • 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.1981, Colin Welland, Chariots of Fire, spoken by Harold M. Abrahams

Noun (1)

content (uncountable)

1. Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
   • They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.
   • ‘It is very difficult to […] learn to seek content, instead of happiness.’1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction
2. (obsolete) Acquiescence without examination.
   • The sense they humbly take upon content.1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC
3. That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
   • So will I in England work your grace's full content.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
4. (UK, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
5. (UK, metonymically, House of Lords) A member who votes in assent.

Interjection

1. (archaic) Alright, agreed.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.
   • 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 15:15

   Synonyms:

   elate, hearten, beatify, enrapture, begladden, blissen, bright, cheer, fetch, cheer up

2. (obsolete, transitive) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
   • Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Adjective (2)

content (comparative more content, superlative most content)

1. (obsolete) Contained.

Noun (2)

content (countable and uncountable, plural contents)

1. (uncountable) That which is contained.

   Synonyms:

   contents

2. Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
   • Although eloquently delivered, the content of the speech was objectionable.
   • You can look up the chapter on special relativity in the table of contents.
   1. (broadly, uncountable) One or more creative works.
      • Some online video creators upload new content every day.
      • Prolific creators manage their voluminous content with any of various content management systems.
   2. (Internet, broadly, colloquial) The potential of creative work for a content creator.
      • He moved to California for the content.
3. The amount of material contained.
   • Light beer has a lower alcohol content than regular beer.
4. (obsolete) Capacity for containing.
   • Strong ships, of great content.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn]...
5. 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.
6. (ring theory) 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.