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Content   /kˈɑntɛnt/  /kəntˈɛnt/   Listen
Content

noun
1.
Everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something.  "The two groups were similar in content"
2.
What a communication that is about something is about.  Synonyms: message, subject matter, substance.
3.
The proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc..
4.
The amount that can be contained.  Synonym: capacity.
5.
The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned.  Synonyms: cognitive content, mental object.
6.
The state of being contented with your situation in life.  Synonym: contentedness.  "They could read to their heart's content"
7.
Something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation.  Synonyms: depicted object, subject.
adjective
1.
Satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are.  Synonym: contented.  Antonym: discontented.
verb
1.
Satisfy in a limited way.
2.
Make content.  Antonym: discontent.



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"Content" Quotes from Famous Books



... felt strongly the disproportion of their marriages to that of their younger sister. This consideration made them far from being content, though they were arrived at the utmost height of their late wishes, and much beyond their hopes. They gave themselves up to an excess of jealousy, and frequently met together to consult how they might revenge themselves on the queen. They ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments • Anonymous
... had been flowing through many places a current of talk about America. What was she going to do? Was she going to do anything at all? Would it be possible for her hugeness, her power, her wealth to remain inert in a world crisis? Would she be content tacitly to admit the truth of old accusations of commerciality by securing as her part in the superhuman conflict the simple and unadorned making of money through the dire necessities of the world? There was bitterness, there ...
— Robin • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... theory is founded. In this we have had the most gratifying success; but we have regarded ourselves only as the humble pioneers in a work which would be carried on by others to its magnificent consummation, and have been content to wait and toil for the development of the cause and the completion ...
— Brook Farm • John Thomas Codman
... curtain of leaves took place many dramas I longed to see; but I knew that my appearance there would be a signal for the whole scene to vanish, and with flit of wings the dramatis personae to make their exit. So I tried to possess my soul in patience, and to content myself with the flashes and glimpses I could catch through an opening here and there in the ...
— Little Brothers of the Air • Olive Thorne Miller
... to Carpenter in Montreal right away," he said to the attendant who answered his call. Then he swung about in his chair, with a throaty grunt of content. He sat for a moment, staring at the woman with unseeing eyes. Then he stood up. With his hands thrust deep in his pockets he slowly moved his head back and forth, as though assenting ...
— Never-Fail Blake • Arthur Stringer


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