description
noun
[ dɪˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n ]
• a spoken or written account of a person, object, or event.
• "people who had seen him were able to give a description"
Similar:
account,
explanation,
elucidation,
illustration,
representation,
interpretation,
chronicle,
report,
narration,
narrative,
story,
recounting,
rendition,
relation,
commentary,
version,
portrayal,
portrait,
word picture,
evocation,
details,
• a type or class of people or things.
• "it is laughably easy to buy drugs of all descriptions"
Similar:
sort,
variety,
kind,
style,
type,
category,
order,
breed,
species,
class,
designation,
specification,
genre,
genus,
brand,
make,
character,
ilk,
kidney,
grain,
stamp,
mould,
stripe,
Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin descriptio(n- ), from describere ‘write down’.
