Meanings
- pluralplural of content
- plural normallyThat which is contained.
The contents of the cup had a familiar aroma.
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It is not covered in your homeowner's policy. You need contents insurance.
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.
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal CombustionThree 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.
2026 July 25, Nicholas Muhoro, “The Last Call of Jo-Anne Pedersen, the Girl Who Vanished From a Payphone”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2026 - abbreviationellipsispluralplural onlyEllipsis 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.
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of content
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
nouna list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic مُحْتَوَى, مَضْمُون
- مُحْتَوَى (muḥtawā)that which is contained
- مَضْمُون (maḍmūn)that which is contained
Bulgarian съдържа́ние
- съдържа́ние (sădăržánie)that which is contained
Chinese Cantonese 內容 /内容
- 內容 /内容 (noi⁶ jung⁴)that which is contained
Chinese Mandarin 內容 /内容
- 內容 /内容 (nèiróng)that which is contained
Czech obsah
- obsahthat which is contained
Danish indhold
- indholdthat which is contained
Dutch inhoud
- inhoudthat which is contained
Esperanto enhavo
- enhavothat which is contained
Estonian sisu, sisukord
- sisuthat which is contained
- sisukordthat which is contained
Finnish sisältö
- sisältöthat which is contained
French contenu
- contenuthat which is contained
German Inhalt
- Inhaltthat which is contained
Greek περιεχόμενο
- περιεχόμενο (periechómeno)that which is contained
Hindi अंतर्वस्तु
- अंतर्वस्तु (antarvastu)that which is contained
Hungarian tartalom
- tartalomthat which is contained
Italian contenuto
- contenutothat which is contained
Japanese 内容, 中身
- 内容 (naiyō)that which is contained
- 中身 (nakami)that which is contained
- コンテンツ (kontentsu)that which is contained
Korean 내용, 콘텐츠
- 내용 (naeyong)that which is contained
- 콘텐츠 (kontencheu)that which is contained
Latvian saturs
- satursthat which is contained
Lithuanian turinys
- turinysthat which is contained
Māori rārangi upoko
- rārangi upokothat which is contained
Norwegian Bokmål innhold
- innholdthat which is contained
Polish zawartość, treść
- zawartośćthat which is contained
- treśćthat which is contained
Portuguese conteúdo
- conteúdothat which is contained
Romanian conținut
- conținutthat which is contained
Russian содержа́ние, содержи́мое
- содержа́ние (soderžánije)that which is contained
- содержи́мое (soderžímoje)that which is contained
Slovak obsah
- obsahthat which is contained
Spanish contenido
- contenidothat which is contained
Swedish innehåll
- innehållthat which is contained
Turkish içerik, muhteva
- içerikthat which is contained
- muhtevathat which is contained
Ukrainian зміст, вміст
- зміст (zmist)that which is contained
- вміст (vmist)that which is contained
Vietnamese nội dung
- nội dungthat which is contained
Yiddish אינהאַלט
- אינהאַלט (inhalt)that which is contained
Cite this entry
contents. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contents
“contents.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contents. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “contents,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contents.
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