Definitions for contents

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contents con·tent

Spelling: [kon-tent]

IPA: /ˈkɒn tɛnt/

Contents is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in contents (cennostt).

Definitions for contents

noun

1. Usually, contents. something that is contained: the subjects or topics covered in a book or document. the chapters or other formal divisions of a book or document:
2. something that is to be expressed through some medium, as speech, writing, or any of various arts:
3. significance or profundity; meaning:
4. substantive information or creative material viewed in contrast to its actual or potential manner of presentation:
5. that which may be perceived in something:
6. Philosophy, Logic. the sum of the attributes or notions comprised in a given conception; the substance or matter of cognition.
7. power of containing; holding capacity:
8. volume, area, or extent; size.
9. the amount contained.
10. Linguistics. the system of meanings or semantic values specific to a language (opposed to expression).
11. Mathematics. the greatest common divisor of all the coefficients of a given polynomial. Compare primitive polynomial. any abstraction of the concept of length, area, or volume.
12. the state or feeling of being contented; satisfaction; contentment:
13. (in the British House of Lords) an affirmative vote or voter.

adjective

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

verb (used with object)

1. to make content:

Origin of contents

1375-1425; late Middle English (Anglo-French) Medieval Latin contentum, noun use of neuter of Latin contentus (past participle of continēre to contain), equivalent to con-

Examples for contents

The Bank will open the door and attend to the contents of the box at the proper time.

After it reached Ethiopia, the contents were distributed and sold out in under two weeks.

Andrew was barely in time to save the contents of the sack from her teeth.

She is greatly disturbed at the contents of a letter from Lovelace.

It contents were instantly irrelevant, news from another century.

Mr. Gladstone knew what books he had and was familiar with their contents.

But Tarantino nixed that idea, instead choosing to have the contents be whatever you want it to be.

Inhofe, as the GOP head of the committee that controls that bill, is in a good position to influence its contents.

Then label the cans, so that no mistake will be made as to their contents.

When I saw it listed on the contents page, I thought, “Why would he write about a song that insipid?”