noun
Meaning 1
plural of content
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
contents
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈkɑn.tɛnts/
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General-American: /ˈkɑn.tɛns/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒn.tɛnts/
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CMU ARPABET: K AA1 N T EH0 N T S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: K AH0 N T EH1 N T S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
That which is contained.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural-normally
Examples
- It is not covered in your homeowner's policy. You need contents insurance.
- The contents of the cup had a familiar aroma.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A table of contents, a list of chapters, etc. in a book, and the page numbers on which they start.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- I always start a book by reading the dustjacket and the contents before I really dig in to the content itself.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
third-person singular simple present indicative of content
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: table of contents
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: list, listing, table, tabular array
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
40 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُحْتَوَى (muḥtawā) — that which is contained
- Armenian: պարունակություն (parunakutʻyun) — that which is contained
- Armenian: բովանդակություն (bovandakutʻyun) — that which is contained
- Belarusian: змест (zmjest) — that which is contained
- Bulgarian: съдържа́ние (sǎdǎržánie) — that which is contained
- Chinese Mandarin: 內容 /内容 (nèiróng) — that which is contained
- Czech: obsah — that which is contained
- Dutch: inhoud — that which is contained
- Esperanto: enhavo — that which is contained
- Finnish: sisältö — that which is contained
- French: contenu — that which is contained
- German: Inhalt — that which is contained
- Hungarian: tartalom — that which is contained
- Japanese: 内容 (naiyō) — that which is contained
- Japanese: 中身 (nakami) — that which is contained
- Japanese: コンテンツ (kontentsu) — that which is contained
- Korean: 내용 (naeyong) — that which is contained
- Korean: 콘텐츠 (kontencheu) — that which is contained
- Macedonian: содржина (sodržina) — that which is contained
- Māori: rārangi upoko — that which is contained
- Norwegian Bokmål: innhold — that which is contained
- Norwegian Nynorsk: innhald — that which is contained
- Old English: innung — that which is contained
- Persian: محتویات (mohtaviyât) — that which is contained
- Polish: zawartość — that which is contained
- Polish: treść — that which is contained
- Portuguese: conteúdo — that which is contained
- Russian: содержа́ние (soderžánije) — that which is contained
- Russian: содержи́мое (soderžímoje) — that which is contained
- Serbo-Croatian: са̏држа̄ј — that which is contained
- Serbo-Croatian: са̀држина — that which is contained
- Serbo-Croatian: sȁdržāj — that which is contained
- Serbo-Croatian: sàdržina — that which is contained
- Slovak: obsah — that which is contained
- Slovene: vsebina — that which is contained
- Spanish: contenido — that which is contained
- Ukrainian: зміст (zmist) — that which is contained
- Ukrainian: вміст (vmist) — that which is contained
- Vietnamese: nội dung — that which is contained
- Yiddish: אינהאַלט (inhalt) — that which is contained
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