contentとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: kəntĕnt', IPA^(key): /kənˈtɛnt/
  • Hyphenation: con‧tent

形容詞

content (comparative more content または contenter, superlative most content)

1. satisfied
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0108:

     This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.

   Synonyms: contented, pleased, satisfied

派生語

名詞

content (uncountable)

1. (now まれに, except in phrases) Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
   • 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary, Oxford 2009, p. 51:

     ‘It is very difficult to […] learn to seek content, instead of happiness.’

   • 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Penguin 2009, p. 287:

     ‘I understand you—upon every other subject, but the only one, my content requires, you are ready to obey me.’

派生語

• to one's heart's content

間投詞

content

1. (archaic) alright, agreed

動詞

content (三人称単数 現在形 contents, 現在分詞 contenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 contented)

1. (transitive) to give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to make happy.

   You can't have any more - you'll have to content yourself with what you already have.

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Mark 15:15,^[1]

     And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

   • 1741, Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind, London: James Brackstone, Part I, Chapter 14, p. 194,^[2]

     Do not content yourselves with meer Words and Names, lest your laboured Improvements only amass a heap of unintelligible Phrases, and you feed upon Husks instead of Kernels.

   • 2016, Felicity Cloake, “How to make the perfect cacio e pepe,” The Guardian, 3 November, 2016,^[3]

     Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy recommend rigatoni in the Geometry of Pasta, and Christopher Boswell, the chef behind the Rome Sustainable Food project, prefers wholemeal paccheri or rigatoni in his book Pasta, on the basis that “the flavour of the whole grain is strong enough to stand up to the sharp and salty sheep’s milk cheese” (as I can find neither easily, I have to content myself with brown penne instead).

2. (transitive, obsolete) to satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite
   • c. 1599 William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act III, Scene 2,^[4]

     Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.

語源 2

From Middle English content (複数形 contentes, contence), from Latin contentus, past participle of continēre (“to hold in, contain”), as Etymology 1, above. English apparently developed a substantive form of the adjective, which is not mirrored in Romance languages.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔn.tɛnt/
• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.tɛnt/
• (米国用法) enPR: kŏn'tĕnt, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.tɛnt/
• Hyphenation: con‧tent

形容詞

content (comparative more content, superlative most content)

1. (obsolete) Contained.

名詞

content (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 contents)

1. (uncountable) That which is contained.
   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

2. Subject matter; that which is contained in writing or speech.
   • 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge Chapter 21

     Hugh admitting that he never had, and moreover that he couldn’t read, Mrs Varden declared with much severity, that he ought to he even more ashamed of himself than before, and strongly recommended him to save up his pocket-money for the purchase of one, and further to teach himself the contents with all convenient diligence.

3. the amount of material contained; contents
4. capacity for holding
   • 1627, Francis Bacon, New Atlantis

     Strong ships, of great content.

5. (mathematics) the n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron かつ area in the case of a polygon)
6. (algebra, ring theory, of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain) the greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible
7. Satisfaction; contentment.

   They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.

   • 2008, Mingmei Yip, Peach Blossom Pavilion:

     Like an empress, I feel great content surrounded by the familiar sounds of laughter, bickering, rattling plates, clicking chopsticks, smacking lips, and noisy sipping of the longevity brew.

   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2: Act 1, Scene 1

     Such is the fullness of my heart's content.

   • 1946, C.L. Moore, Vintage Season:

     Kleph moved slowly from the door and sank upon the chaise longue with a little sigh of content.

8. (obsolete) acquiescence without examination
   • 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

     The sense they humbly take upon content.

9. That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2: Act 1, Scene 1

     So will I in England work your grace's full content.

10. (Britain, House of Lords) an expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmate vote
11. (Britain, House of Lords) a member who votes in assent

派生語

関連する語

Further reading

• content in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• content in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

アナグラム

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