content
(usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,471 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 12,484 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something also: contents he emptied the contents of his pocketsthe two groups were similar in content
- what a communication that is about something is about also: message, subject matter, substance
- the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.
- the amount that can be contained also: capacity the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons
- the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned also: cognitive content, mental object
- the state of being contented with your situation in life also: contentedness he relaxed in sleepy contentednessthey could read to their heart's content
verb
- satisfy in a limited way He contented himself with one glass of beer per day
content in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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She had been comfortable and content for seventeen years.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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In his search for wealth, he had been content to abide his time.
The Intrusion of Jimmy · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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Hitherto Ethan Frome had been content to think him a mean fellow; but now he positively invited a horse-whipping.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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Mr. George Burton, naval pensioner, sat at the door of his lodgings gazing in placid content at the sea.
Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14. · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1
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Could stars of Mayfair be content To round upon Rome or the Riggi, and smug up in Surrey or Kent?
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1