1. A statement that represents something in words
   "The police asked for a verbal description of the suspect";
   - verbal description
    
2. The act of describing something
   "His vivid description of the scene made listeners feel as if they were there"; "The real estate agent's description of the house piqued the buyer's interest"
    
3. Sort or variety
   "every description of book was there"

Derived forms: descriptions

Type of: form, kind, sort, speech act, statement, variety

Encyclopedia: Description