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open content

open content noun: creative work that others can freely and legally copy or modify.

Noun

open content (uncountable)

  1. (attributive, sometimes) Creative work that others can freely and legally copy or modify.
    • Many websites are copyrighted and do not have any open content.
    • Wiktionary is a wiki-based open-content dictionary.

Origin of open content

Coined by David Wiley as OpenContent in 1998.

Questions about open content

What does open content mean?
Open content means creative work that others can freely and legally copy or modify.
What part of speech is open content?
Open content is a noun.

Words near open content in the dictionary

  1. open comedones
  2. open comedos
  3. open communion
  4. open compound
  5. open compounds
  6. open content
  7. open convention
  8. open conventions
  9. open core
  10. open cover
  11. open covers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: open content (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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