contentadjective [ after verb ]
uk/kənˈtent/us/kənˈtent/B2 pleased with your situation and not hoping for change or improvement:
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- I was just content to see my daughter in such a stable relationship but a grandchild, that really was the icing on the cake.
- I'd be content with a modest income.
- He's quite content living on his own.
- I'm content to sit at the back.
- They were content with second hand clothes.
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Satisfied and complacent
- at one with the world idiom
- be on to a good thing idiom
- complacency
- complacent
- gloat
- life
- pride
- rest
- rest on your laurels idiom
- run
- sate
- sated
- satiate
- self-fulfilment
- self-satisfied
- smug
- smugly
- that'll do nicely idiom
- thing
- world
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Idiom(s)
contentnoun
uk/ˈkɒn.tent/us/ˈkɑːn.tent/content noun (SUBJECT)
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- It's plain reporting of the facts - there's not much editorial content .
- The content of her report is shrouded in secrecy .
- Newspapers carried the content of his speech.
- He told me the content of the letter.
B2 the articles or parts contained in a magazine or book, with the number of the page they begin on:
B2 [ S or U ] the ideas that are contained in a piece of writing, a speech, or a film:
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Books & parts of books
- addendum
- artwork
- bibliography
- binder
- binding
- blurb
- chapter
- erratum
- extract
- flyleaf
- folio
- foreword
- frontispiece
- library
- margin
- monograph
- preface
- prologue
- serial
- table
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content noun (AMOUNT)
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- Chemical analysis revealed a high content of copper.
- The cheaper food has a high water content.
- They have promised to reduce the salt content in their pizzas.
B1 everything that is contained within something:
C2 [ S ] the amount of a particular substance contained in something:
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Including and containing
- (right) down to idiom
- assimilate
- build sth in/into sth
- built-in
- cast
- cast your net wide idiom
- catholic
- factor
- factor sth in
- figure
- forget
- inbuilt
- incl
- include
- pack
- package
- rich
- subsume
- throw sth in
- wide-ranging
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contentverb [ T ]
uk/kənˈtent/us/kənˈtent/to make someone feel happy and satisfied:
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Causing pleasure
- agreeable
- all things to all people idiom
- attractive
- banging
- be better than sex idiom
- brighten
- dreamy
- ducky
- enchant
- engaging
- enjoyable
- jolly
- keep sb sweet idiom
- knock
- leafy
- lighten
- lovely
- make sb's day idiom
- quench
- tickle
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