CONTENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does content mean? 

• CONTENT (noun)
  The noun CONTENT has 7 senses:

1. (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something

2. what a communication that is about something is about

3. the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.

4. the amount that can be contained

5. the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

6. the state of being contented with your situation in life

7. something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation

  Familiarity information: CONTENT used as a noun is common.

• CONTENT (adjective)
  The adjective CONTENT has 1 sense:

1. satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are

  Familiarity information: CONTENT used as an adjective is very rare.

• CONTENT (verb)
  The verb CONTENT has 2 senses:

1. satisfy in a limited way

2. make content

  Familiarity information: CONTENT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

content; contents

Context example:

the two groups were similar in content

Hypernyms ("content" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Sense 2

Meaning:

What a communication that is about something is about

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

content; message; subject matter; substance

Hypernyms ("content" is a kind of...):

communication (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "content"):

disapproval (the expression of disapproval)

respects ((often used with 'pay') a formal expression of esteem)

discourtesy; disrespect (an expression of lack of respect)

insertion; interpolation (a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted)

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

statement (a nonverbal message)

humor; humour; wit; witticism; wittiness (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)

opinion; view (a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof)

direction; instruction (a message describing how something is to be done)

proposal (something proposed (such as a plan or assumption))

offer; offering (something offered (as a proposal or bid))

latent content ((psychoanalysis) hidden meaning of a fantasy or dream)

entry; submission (something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition))

narration; narrative; story; tale (a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program)

packaging; promo; promotion; promotional material; publicity (a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution)

sensationalism (subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes)

shocker (a sensational message (in a film or play or novel))

commitment; dedication (a message that makes a pledge)

body (the central message of a communication)

corker ((dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person)

reminder (a message that helps you remember something)

petition; postulation; request (a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority)

memorial (a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority)

subject; theme; topic (the subject matter of a conversation or discussion)

aside; digression; divagation; excursus; parenthesis (a message that departs from the main subject)

import; meaning; significance; signification (the message that is intended or expressed or signified)

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

drivel; garbage (a worthless message)

acknowledgement; acknowledgment (a statement acknowledging something or someone)

refusal (a message refusing to accept something that is offered)

info; information (a message received and understood)

counsel; counseling; counselling; direction; guidance (something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action)

approval; commendation (a message expressing a favorable opinion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("content" is a kind of...):

proportion (the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The amount that can be contained

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

capacity; content

Context example:

the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons

Hypernyms ("content" is a kind of...):

volume (the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "content"):

vital capacity (the maximum amount of air that can be exhaled after a maximum inhalation (usually tested with a spirometer); used to determine the condition of lung tissue)

Derivation:

contain (contain or hold; have within)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

cognitive content; content; mental object

Hypernyms ("content" is a kind of...):

cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "content"):

tradition (an inherited pattern of thought or action)

metaknowledge (knowledge about knowledge)

domain; knowledge base; knowledge domain (the content of a particular field of knowledge)

ignorance (the lack of knowledge or education)

lore; traditional knowledge (knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote)

acculturation; culture (all the knowledge and values shared by a society)

experience (the content of direct observation or participation in an event)

education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)

end; goal (the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it)

heresy; unorthodoxy (a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion)

disbelief; unbelief (a rejection of belief)

kenosis (the concept of emptying one's own will and receive God's will, in Catholicism)

internal representation; mental representation; representation (a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image)

belief (any cognitive content held as true)

object (the focus of cognitions or feelings)

food; food for thought; intellectual nourishment (anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking)

noumenon; thing-in-itself (the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception)

universe; universe of discourse (everything stated or assumed in a given discussion)

issue; matter; subject; topic (some situation or event that is thought about)

issue (an important question that is in dispute and must be settled)

idea; thought (the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about)

center; centre; core; essence; gist; heart; heart and soul; inwardness; kernel; marrow; meat; nitty-gritty; nub; pith; substance; sum (the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience)

wisdom (accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The state of being contented with your situation in life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

content; contentedness

Context example:

they could read to their heart's content

Hypernyms ("content" is a kind of...):

acceptance (the state of being acceptable and accepted)

Derivation:

content (satisfy in a limited way)

content (make content)

content (satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

content; depicted object; subject

Context example:

a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject

Hypernyms ("content" is a kind of...):

thing (a separate and self-contained entity)

Holonyms ("content" is a part of...):

scene; view (graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept)

• CONTENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are

Synonyms:

content; contented

Context example:

a contented smile

Similar:

complacent; self-complacent; self-satisfied (contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions)

satisfied (filled with satisfaction)

self-satisfied; smug (marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction)

Also:

happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)

pleased (experiencing or manifesting pleasure)

Derivation:

content (the state of being contented with your situation in life)

• CONTENT (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Satisfy in a limited way

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Context example:

He contented himself with one glass of beer per day

Hypernyms (to "content" is one way to...):

conform to; fill; fit; fulfil; fulfill; meet; satisfy (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

content (the state of being contented with your situation in life)

contentment (happiness with one's situation in life)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make content

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

I am contented

Hypernyms (to "content" is one way to...):

gratify; satisfy (make happy or satisfied)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The good news will content her

Antonym:

discontent (make dissatisfied)

Derivation:

content (the state of being contented with your situation in life)

 Context examples 

She had flung into the lake a bag containing some curious contents.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He wanted a career, not a livelihood, and he was content to make immediate sacrifices for his ultimate again.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Holmes opened it and turned the contents out.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Although I intend to leave the description of this empire to a particular treatise, yet, in the mean time, I am content to gratify the curious reader with some general ideas.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Everyone seemed happy and contented and prosperous.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

This year you have an open road, so you can shop to your heart’s content.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Still more so, by its contents.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had earned it, and he would not be content with less.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He tried again and again, then contented himself with crawling about on hands and knees.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)