description
description is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions of morning. D. Webster.
- 2.A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort. A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors. A. Hamilton. The plates were all of the meanest description. Macaulay. See Definition.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
- account
- definition
- delineation
- detail
- explanation
- kind
- narration
- narrative
- recital
- relation
- representation
- sort
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agnomen
- all
- and
- antonomasia
- antonym
- assorted
- assortment
- baptism
- baptize
- bean
- by-name
- byword
- call
- cant
- caption
- characterize
- christen
- clepe
- cognomen
- cognominal
- cognomination
- compellation
- convertible
- define
- denominate
- denomination
- designate
- designation
- desultory
- different
- discordant
- dissimilar
- dissimilarity
- distinguish
- divers
- diverse
- diversified
- diversity
- dub
- empty
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is description.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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