description

Noun
US[dih-skrip-shuhn]/dɪˈskrɪpʃən/3 syllables
Synonyms: verbal description

Open English WordNet

Noun (3)descriptions

  1. a statement that represents something in wordsSynonyms: verbal descriptionType of statementKinds word picture, specification, job description
  2. the act of describing somethingType of speech actKinds sketch, label, self-description, particularization, characterization
  3. sort or variety“every description of book was there”Type of kind, sort

Related words describe verb, depict verb

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

De·scrip′tion noun

Origin: F. description, L. descriptio. See Describe.

1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

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.

Milton has descriptions of morning.— Daniel Webster

3. A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.

A difference... between them and another description of public creditors.— Alexander Hamilton
The plates were all of the meanest description.— Thomas Babington Macaulay

Synonyms: Account; definition; recital; relation; detail; narrative; narration; explanation; delineation; representation; kind; sort. See Definition.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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