The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Description \De*scrip"tion\, n. [F. description, L. descriptio.
   See Describe.]
   1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
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   2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or
      representation in language; an enumeration of the
      essential qualities of a thing or species.
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            Milton has descriptions of morning.   --D. Webster.
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   3. A class to which a certain representation is applicable;
      kind; sort.
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            A difference . . . between them and another
            description of public creditors.      --A. Hamilton.
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            The plates were all of the meanest description.
                                                  --Macaulay.

   Syn: Account; definition; recital; relation; detail;
        narrative; narration; explanation; delineation;
        representation; kind; sort. See Definition.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

description
    n 1: a statement that represents something in words [syn:
         description, verbal description]
    2: the act of describing something
    3: sort or variety; "every description of book was there"