description

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /dɪˈskrɪpʃən/

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Noun

Singular description

Plural descriptions

Description is on the Academic Vocabulary List.

1. (countable) A description is a phrase or sentence that tells you what something is, or what something is like. A dictionary has descriptions of words, and a biography has descriptions of events in a person's life.

   After coming back from Costa Rica, he gave me a long description of the swimming and sight-seeing he did there.

Related words

• describe
• descriptive