1. Usually contents.
• something that is contained: the contents of a box.
• the subjects or topics covered in a book or document.
• the chapters or other formal divisions of a book or document: a table of contents.
2. something that is to be expressed through some medium, as speech, writing, or any of various arts: a poetic form adequate to a poetic content.
3. significance or profundity; meaning: a clever play that lacks content.
4. substantive information or creative material viewed in contrast to its actual or potential manner of presentation: publishers, record companies, and other content providers; a flashy website, but without much content.
5. that which may be perceived in something: the latent versus the manifest content of a dream.
6. the sum of the attributes or notions comprised in a given conception; the substance or matter of cognition.
7. power of containing; holding capacity: The bowl's content is three quarts.
8. volume, area, or extent; size.
9. the amount contained.
10. the system of meanings or semantic values specific to a language (opposed to expression).
• the greatest common divisor of all the coefficients of a given polynomial.
• any abstraction of the concept of length, area, or volume.

1. satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else.
2. agreeing; assenting.
3. willing.

4. to make content: These things content me.

5. the state or feeling of being contented; satisfaction; contentment: His content was threatened.
6. (in the British House of Lords) an affirmative vote or voter.

1. everything that is inside a container
2. (usually plural)
• the chapters or divisions of a book
• a list, printed at the front of a book, of chapters or divisions together with the number of the first page of each
3. the meaning or significance of a poem, painting, or other work of art, as distinguished from its style or form
4. all that is contained or dealt with in a discussion, piece of writing, etc; substance
5. the capacity or size of a thing
6. the proportion of a substance contained in an alloy, mixture, etc

1. mentally or emotionally satisfied with things as they are
2. assenting to or willing to accept circumstances, a proposed course of action, etc

3. to make (oneself or another person) content or satisfied

4. peace of mind; mental or emotional satisfaction

5. (in the House of Lords) a formal expression of assent, as opposed to the expression not content

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