# Deleting Terms

### About this export

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| **content_type** | lesson |
| **platform** | contentstack-academy |
| **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/taxonomy-foundations/deleting-terms |
| **course_slug** | taxonomy-foundations |
| **lesson_slug** | deleting-terms |
| **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/courses/taxonomy-foundations/deleting-terms.md |
| **generated_at** | 2026-04-28T06:55:49.283Z |

> Part of **[Taxonomy Foundations](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/taxonomy-foundations)** on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys.

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#### Lesson text

Within your stack, you can delete terms from a taxonomy. To **delete a term** in Contentstack, follow these steps -

1.  **Login to Contentstack**: Go to the Contentstack [login page](https://www.contentstack.com/login) and enter your credentials to log in to your account.
    
2.  **Access Taxonomies**: Navigate to the "Settings" icon once logged in. Under "Settings," you'll find an option for "Taxonomies." Click on it to access the Taxonomies section to access the list of taxonomies in your Contentstack organization.
    
3.  **Choose Taxonomy**: From the list of available taxonomies, select the taxonomy containing the term you want to delete. Here, we select the taxonomy **"Genre."**
    
4.  **Choose Term**: Select the term you want to delete from the list of available terms.
    

![delete1.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/bltd6b3065ffc2be7b9/664918433092d04da863f9e5/delete1.png)**Delete Term**: Click on the ellipsis(three dots) icon on the top right corner of the page, which opens a dropdown list from which click the **"Delete Term"** option.

![delete5.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt53ad850417bf1712/664918684bfb71e49b42c106/delete5.png)

  
**Click on Delete**: Clicking on the "Delete Term" option opens a dialog box that asks you to confirm the delete operation. Deleting a parent term will also automatically delete its child term(s). Here, it shows that we will delete the term "**Fiction**," which contains the child term "**Historical/Old Fiction**," which will also be deleted.  

![delete3.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blte16e4232a1532d3c/664918685fd9afd68670e295/delete3.png)  
After successful deletion, you can see that the "Fiction" term is deleted along with its child term, "Historical/Old Fiction."  
![delet2.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt1b8e0895d4479e66/66491868a3f9df6ea1c10bba/delet2.png)Following these steps, you can effectively delete terms within your Contentstack account, facilitating better organization and classification of your entry items.

#### Key takeaways

- Connect **Deleting Terms** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module.
- Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment.
- Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model.

## Supplement for indexing

### Content summary

Deleting Terms. Within your stack, you can delete terms from a taxonomy. To delete a term in Contentstack, follow these steps - 1. Login to Contentstack : Go to the Contentstack login page (https://www.contentstack.com/login) and enter your credentials to log in to your account. 2. Access Taxonomies : Navigate to the "Settings" icon once logged in. Under "Settings," you'll find an option for "Taxonomies." Click on it to access the Taxonomies section to access the list of taxonomies in your Contentstack organization. 3. Choose Taxonomy : From the list of available taxonomies, select the taxonomy containing the term you want to delete. Here, we select the taxonomy "Genre." 4. Choose Term : Select the term you

### Retrieval tags

- Deleting
- Terms
- taxonomy-foundations
- lesson 17
- Deleting Terms
- taxonomy-foundations lesson

### Indexing notes

Index this lesson as a primary chunk tagged with lesson_id "17" and topics: [Deleting, Terms].
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### Asset references

| Label | URL |
| --- | --- |
| delete1.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/bltd6b3065ffc2be7b9/664918433092d04da863f9e5/delete1.png` |
| delete5.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt53ad850417bf1712/664918684bfb71e49b42c106/delete5.png` |
| delete3.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blte16e4232a1532d3c/664918685fd9afd68670e295/delete3.png` |
| delet2.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt1b8e0895d4479e66/66491868a3f9df6ea1c10bba/delet2.png` |

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| delete1.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/bltd6b3065ffc2be7b9/664918433092d04da863f9e5/delete1.png` |
| delete5.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt53ad850417bf1712/664918684bfb71e49b42c106/delete5.png` |
| delete3.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blte16e4232a1532d3c/664918685fd9afd68670e295/delete3.png` |
| delet2.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt1b8e0895d4479e66/66491868a3f9df6ea1c10bba/delet2.png` |