1a: an act of describing; specifically : discourse intended to give a mental image of something experienced beautiful beyond description gave an accurate description of what he saw
1b: a statement or account giving the characteristics of someone or something : a descriptive statement or account The review was little more than a description of the film's plot.
2: kind or character especially as determined by salient (see 1salient 3b) features someone fitting the suspect's description had toys of every description opposed to any tax of so radical a description
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