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Definition of DESCRIPTION

1

a vivid representation in words of someone or something <we immediately recognized the man from our cousin's description of him>

Synonyms definition, delineation, depiction, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, rendering, sketch, vignette

Related Words account, anecdote, chronicle, narrative, report, story, tale, yarn; demonstration, exemplification, illustration; clarification, elucidation, explanation, explication, exposition

2

a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common <fixes small appliances and other things of that description>

Synonyms breed, class, description, feather, genre, ilk, kidney, kind, like, manner, nature, order, species, strain, stripe, type, variety

Related Words model; sample, specimen; bracket, bunch, category, division, family, grade, group, grouping, lot, persuasion, rank(s), set, suite