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nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkɒn.tɛnts//
  • United States//ˈkɑn.tɛnts//
  • United States//ˈkɑn.tɛns//

That which is contained.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of contentplural of content

noun

  1. 1

    That which is contained.

    It is not covered in your homeowner's policy. You need contents insurance.

    The contents of the cup had a familiar aroma.

    Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.

    Three years later, on August 28, 2011, a second anonymous letter was delivered to the Chilliwack RCMP. Investigators would not detail the contents but confirmed it had information significant enough to act on.

  2. 2

    Variant of table of contentsEllipsis of table of contents.

    I always start a book by reading the dustjacket and the contents before I really dig in to the content itself.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of contentthird-person singular simple present indicative of content

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).