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table of contents

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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.

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  • General-American: /ˈteɪbl̩ əv ˈkɑntɛnts/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈteɪbl̩ əv ˈkɒntɛnts/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A list of titles of the parts of a book or document, organized in the order in which the parts appear.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A region of data on a compact disc that describes the contents that follow.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

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: contents

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: list, listing, table, tabular array

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

106 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: inhoudsopgawe — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Albanian: përmbajtje — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Arabic: فِهْرِس (fihris) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Arabic: مُحْتَوَيَات (muḥtawayāt) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Armenian: ցանկ (cʻank) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Armenian: բովանդակություն (bovandakutʻyun) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Azerbaijani: mündəricat — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Basque: aurkibide — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Belarusian: змест (zmjest) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Belarusian: спіс (spis) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Bengali: সূচিপত্র (śucipotro) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Bulgarian: съдържа́ние (sǎdǎržánie) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Burmese: မာတိကာ (mati.ka) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Catalan: taula de matèries — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Chinese Mandarin: 目錄 /目录 (mùlù) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Chinese Mandarin: 目次 (mùcì) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Chinese Mandarin: 篇目 (piānmù) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Czech: obsah — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Danish: indholdsfortegnelse — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Dutch: inhoud — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Dutch: inhoudstafel — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Dutch: inhoudsopgave — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Esperanto: enhavtabelo — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Estonian: sisukord — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Finnish: sisällysluettelo — organized list summarizing book or document
  • French: table des matières — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Georgian: შინაარსი (šinaarsi) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Georgian: სარჩევი (sarčevi) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • German: Inhaltsverzeichnis — organized list summarizing book or document
  • German: Inhalt — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Greek: περιεχόμενα (periechómena) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Gujarati: અનુક્રમણિકા (anukramṇikā) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Hebrew: תֹּכֶן הָעִנְיָנִים (tókhen ha-inyaním) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Hindi: अनुक्रम (anukram) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Hindi: अनुक्रमणिका (anukramṇikā) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Hungarian: tartalomjegyzék — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Hungarian: tartalom — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Icelandic: efnisyfirlit — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Indonesian: daftar isi — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Irish: clár ábhair — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Italian: contenuti — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Japanese: 目次 (mokuji) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Kashubian: spisënk zamkłoscë — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Kazakh: мазмұн (mazmūn) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Khmer: មាតិកានុក្រម (miətekaanukrɑm) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Khmer: មាតិកា (miətekaa) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Korean: 목차 (mokcha) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Korean: 차례 (charye) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Kyrgyz: мазмун (mazmun) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Lao: ສາລະບານ (sā la bān) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Latvian: saturs — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Lithuanian: turinys — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Macedonian: содржина (sodržina) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Malay: fahrasat — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Malayalam: ഉള്ളടക്കം (uḷḷaṭakkaṁ) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Malayalam: വിഷയസൂചി (viṣayasūci) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Malayalam: വിഷയാനുക്രമണി (viṣayānukramaṇi) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Māori: rārangi upoko — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Mongolian: гарчиг (garčig) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Mongolian: товьёог (tovʹjoog) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Norwegian Bokmål: innholdsfortegnelse — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Pali: mātikā — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Pashto: د موضوعګانو فهرست — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Persian: فهرست محتویات (fehrest-e mohtaviyât) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Persian: فهرست (fehrest) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Persian: فهرست مندرجات (fehrest-e mondarejât) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Persian: مندرجات (mondarejât) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Polish: spis treści — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Portuguese: índice — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Portuguese: sumário — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Romanian: cuprins — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Romanian: tablă de materii — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Russian: содержа́ние (soderžánije) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Russian: оглавле́ние (oglavlénije) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Sanskrit: अनुक्रमणिका (anukramaṇikā) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Serbo-Croatian: ка̀зало — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Serbo-Croatian: kàzalo — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Slovak: obsah — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Slovene: kazalo — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Spanish: sumario — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Spanish: índice de materias — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Spanish: tabla de contenidos — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Swahili: yaliyomo — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Swedish: innehållsförteckning — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Tagalog: talalamanan — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Tagalog: talaan ng nilalaman — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Tajik: мундариҷа (mundarija) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Tajik: феҳрист (fehrist) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Thai: สารบัญ (sǎa-rá-ban) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Thai: สูจิ (sǔu-jì) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Turkish: fihrist — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Turkish: içindekiler — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Ottoman Turkish: فهرست (fihrist) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Turkmen: mazmun tablisasy — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Ukrainian: зміст (zmist) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Ukrainian: о́глав (óhlav) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Urdu: فـہرست (fehrist) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Urdu: سوچی پتر (sūcī-patr) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Urdu: فہرست مضامین (fehrist-i-mazāmīn) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Uyghur: مۇندەرىجە (munderije) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Uyghur: مەزمۇن (mezmun) — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Uzbek: mundarija — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Vietnamese: mục lục — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Volapük: ninädalised — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Welsh: tabl cynnwys — organized list summarizing book or document
  • Yiddish: אינהאַלט (inhalt) — organized list summarizing book or document