content

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Happy and satisfied with what you have.

   After a good meal, the children were content and sleepy.

2. 2
   noun

   The things that are inside something such as a container, bag, or room.

   They emptied the contents of their pockets onto the table.

3. 3
   noun

   The information, ideas, or subject matter of a book, speech, message, or website.

   The content of the message was unclear to me.

4. 4
   noun

   The amount of a particular substance that something contains.

   This drink has a high sugar content.

5. 5
   verb

   To satisfy yourself with something, often less than you wanted.

   I contented myself with one glass of wine.

From Middle English content (plural contentes, contence), from Latin contentus, past participle of continēre (“to hold in, contain”), as Etymology 1, above. English apparently developed a substantive form of the adjective, which is not mirrored in Romance languages.

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