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contente

contente is the obsolete spelling of content.

Meaning of 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

Adjective (2)

content (comparative more content, superlative most content)

  1. (obsolete) Contained.

See all 18 meanings of content

Forms of contente

comparativemore contente
superlativemost contente

Questions about contente

What is contente the obsolete spelling of?
Contente is the obsolete spelling of content.

Words near contente in the dictionary

  1. content-creators
  2. content-free
  3. contentable
  4. contentation
  5. contentations
  6. contente
  7. contented
  8. contentedly
  9. contentedness
  10. contenter
  11. contentest

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