contents

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.tɛnts/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.tɛnts/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: con‧tents

Noun

contents

1. plural of content

Noun

contents

1. (usually in the plural) 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.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎:

     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.

2. (plural only) A table of contents, a list of chapters, etc. in a book, and the page numbers on which they start.

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

Derived terms

• contents insurance

Translations

table of contents — see table of contents

that which is contained

Arabic: مُحْتَوَى m (muḥtawā) Armenian: պարունակություն (hy) (parunakutʻyun), բովանդակություն (hy) (bovandakutʻyun) Belarusian: змест (be) m (zmjest) Bulgarian: съдържа́ние (bg) n (sǎdǎržánie) Chinese: Mandarin: 內容／内容 (zh) (nèiróng) Czech: obsah (cs) m Dutch: inhoud (nl) Esperanto: enhavo Finnish: sisältö (fi) French: contenu (fr) m German: Inhalt (de) m Hungarian: tartalom (hu) Japanese: 内容 (ja) (ないよう, naiyō), 中身 (ja) (なかみ, nakami), コンテンツ (ja) (kontentsu) Korean: 내용(內容) (ko) (naeyong), 콘텐츠 (kontencheu) Macedonian: содржина f (sodržina) Maori: rārangi upoko Norwegian: Bokmål: innhold n Nynorsk: innhald n Old English: innung f Persian: محتویات (fa) (mohtaviyât) Polish: zawartość (pl) f, treść (pl) f Portuguese: conteúdo (pt) m Russian: содержа́ние (ru) n (soderžánije), содержи́мое (ru) n (soderžímoje) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: са̏држа̄ј m, са̀држина f Roman: sȁdržāj (sh) m, sàdržina (sh) f Slovak: obsah m Slovene: vsebina f Spanish: contenido (es) m Ukrainian: зміст (uk) m (zmist), вміст m (vmist) Vietnamese: nội dung (vi) (內容) Yiddish: אינהאַלט m (inhalt)

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Maltese: (please verify) kontenut, (please verify) werrej

Verb

contents

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of content

Anagrams

• Connetts

Catalan

Adjective

contents

1. masculine plural of content

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tɑ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: comptant, contant, content

Adjective

contents

1. masculine plural of content

Norman

Adjective

contents

1. masculine plural of content