1. (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
   "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content";
   - contents
    
2. What a communication is about; the information conveyed or area of interest
   "The content of the lecture was climate change";
   - message, subject matter, substance
    
3. The proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.
   "The alcohol content of the wine was 12%"
    
4. The amount that can be contained
   "The content of the storage tank was measured in gallons";
   - capacity
    
5. The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
   "The lecture expanded the students' cognitive content on the subject";
   - cognitive content, mental object
    
6. Something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
   "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same content";
   - subject, depicted object

1. Make or become satisfied
   "I am contented"

1. Satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are
   - contented

1. The state of being contented with your situation in life
   "they could read to their hearts' content";
   - contentedness

1. Satisfy in a limited way
   "He contented himself with one glass of beer per day"

Derived forms: contented, contenting, contents

See also: complacent, happy, pleased, satisfied, self-complacent, self-satisfied, smug

Type of: acceptance, accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, cognition, collection, communication, conform to, fill, fit, fulfil [Brit, Cdn], fulfill [N. Amer], gratify, meet, noesis [technical], proportion, satisfy, thing, volume

Antonym: discontent

Part of: scene, view

Encyclopedia: Content, Pennsylvania