- description, verbal description - a statement that represents something in words
--1 is a kind of statement
--1 has particulars:job description; specification, spec; word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation - description - the act of describing something
--2 is a kind of speech act
--2 has particulars:characterization, characterisation; label; particularization, particularisation, detailing; sketch, vignette Derived forms: verb describe2, verb describe1 - description - sort or variety; "every description of book was there"
--3 is a kind of kind, sort, form, variety