Usually means: Explanation of characteristics or features.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word description:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. description: Merriam-Webster
  2. description: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. description: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. description: Collins English Dictionary
  5. description: Vocabulary.com
  6. Description, description: Wordnik
  7. description: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. description: Wiktionary
  9. description: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. description: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. description: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. description: Dictionary.com
  13. description: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. description: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DESCRIPT.ION, Description, The Description: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Description: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. description: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. description: Rhymezone
  19. description, description (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. description: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. description: FreeDictionary.org
  22. description: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. description: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. description: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. description: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. description: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. description: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. description: Legal dictionary
  5. description: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. description: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. description: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Description: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  2. description: Search Engine Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
noun:  A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
noun:  (taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
noun:  (linguistics) The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
noun:  (linguistics) A descriptive linguistic survey.

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