description

noun/dɪˈskrɪpʃən/

Frequency rank: #1,392 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

A spoken or written account of what someone or something is like.

Illustration for the English word “description”

Example sentence

The teacher asked for a detailed description of the mysterious object.

Synonyms & related words

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