Entry Word: description

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a vivid representation in words of someone or something <we recognized his cousin from his description>

Synonyms delineation, depiction, picture, portrait, portrayal, sketch

Related Words account, chronicle, narrative, report, story, tale; demonstration, exemplification, illustration

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> — see sort 1