About The Word Description
Learn about the word Description to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Description definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Description
| Description Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Description?
[n] sort or variety; "every description of book was there"
[n] a statement that represents something in words [n] the act of describing something Synonyms | Synonyms for Description: verbal description Related Terms | Find terms related to Description: account | anecdote | blood | brand | breed | cast | category | character | characterization | chronicle | clan | class | color | commentary | construction | definition | delineation | denomination | depiction | designation | diagnosis | differentiation | distinction | explanation | feather | form | genre | genus | grain | history | ilk | interpretation | kidney | kin | kind | label | line | lot | make | manner | mark | meaning | memoir | mold | narration | narrative | nature | number | persuasion | phylum | picture | portrait | portraiture | portrayal | presentment | race | reading | recital | record | recountal | recounting | report | representation | shape | sort | species | stamp | statement | story | strain | stripe | style | tale | the like of | the likes of | thumbnail sketch | tribe | type | variety | version | way of seeing | yarn See Also | characterisation | characterization | delineation | depiction | detailing | form | job description | kind | label | particularisation | particularization | picture | sketch | sort | spec | specification | speech act | statement | variety | vignette | word picture | word-painting Description In Webster's Dictionary \De*scrip"tion\, n. [F. description, L. descriptio.
See {Describe}.]
1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
2. 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.
3. 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.
Syn: Account; definition; recital; relation; detail;
narrative; narration; explanation; delineation;
representation; kind; sort. See {Definition}.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Throaty ‐ sounding as if pronounced low in the throat; "a rich throaty…
- Mustard sauce ‐ prepared mustard thinned with vinegar and getable oil with sugar…
- Seriola zonata ‐ fish having the habit of following ships; found in North and…
- Galvanic ‐ affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling; "gave an…
- Resurrection fern ‐ fern growing on rocks or tree trunks and having fronds grayish…
- Marabou ‐ downy feathers of marabou storks used for trimming garments [n]…
- Nicholas vachel lindsay ‐ United States poet who traveled the country trading his poems…
- Afraid ‐ filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant…
- Stroheim ‐ United States film actor (born in Austria)…
- Treasure chest ‐ a chest filled with…