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Singular
description

Plural
descriptions

Description is on the Academic Vocabulary List.
  1. (countable) A description is a phrase or sentence that tells you what something is, or what something is like. A dictionary has descriptions of words, and a biography has descriptions of events in a person's life.
    After coming back from Costa Rica, he gave me a long description of the swimming and sight-seeing he did there.
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