content
//kənˈtɛnt//
Forms
- Comparative
- more content
- Superlative
- most content
- Plural
- contents
- present (v1)
- content
- past (v2)
- contented
- past participle (v3)
- contented
- present participle
- contenting
- 3rd person singular
- contents
Definitions
1.Satisfied, pleased, contented.
- You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're brave, compassionate, kind: a content man. That is your secret, contentment; I am 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit, and I don't even know what I am chasing.
1.Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
- Such is the fullness of my heart's content.
- They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.
- Kleph moved slowly from the door and sank upon the chaise longue with a little sigh of content.
2.An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
3.A member who votes in assent.
4.That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
- So will I in England work your grace's full content.
1.To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.
- You can't have any more. You'll have to content yourself with what you already have.
- And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
- Do not content yourselves with meer Words and Names, lest your laboured Improvements only amass a heap of unintelligible Phrases, and you feed upon Husks instead of Kernels.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1215
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English contenten (“to satisfy”)
From Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of continēre (“to contain”).