Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - description

(descriptions) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A description of someone or something is an account which explains what they are or what they look like. Police have issued a description of the man who was aged between fifty and sixty... He has a real gift for vivid description. N-VAR: oft N of n 2. If something is of a particular description, it belongs to the general class of items that are mentioned. Events of this description occurred daily. = kind, type N-SING: of N 3. You can say that something is beyond description, or that it defies description, to emphasize that it is very unusual, impressive, terrible, or extreme. His face is weary beyond description... N-UNCOUNT: oft beyond N c darkgreen]emphasis