Have you ever seen Mt. Fuji? It is beautiful beyond description.
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Description
//dɪˈskɹɪpʃən//
Synonyms for "description" (116 found)
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Strong matches (34)
Related words (58)
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6 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
6 entriescauses desire
1 entriesderived
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
has context
1 entriesis a
6 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
14 entriesTranslations
150 translations across 77 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- përshkrim noun (account in words)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- περιήγησις noun (account in words)
- ἔκφρασις noun (account in words)
Arabic
4 entries- تَصْوِير noun (account in words)
- تَفْصِيل noun (account in words)
- تَوْصِيف noun (account in words)
- وَصْف noun (account in words)
Armenian
1 entries- նկարագրություն noun (account in words)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- təsvir noun (account in words)
Belarusian
2 entries- апіса́нне noun (account in words)
- апіса́ньне noun (account in words)
Bengali
1 entries- বয়ান noun (account in words)
Bulgarian
2 entries- описа́ние noun (account in words)
- описа́ние noun (set of characteristics)
Burmese
1 entries- ဖေါ်ပြချက် noun (account in words)
Catalan
1 entries- descripció noun (account in words)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- وەسف noun (account in words)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 描寫 /描写 noun (account in words)
- 描述 noun (account in words)
Czech
1 entries- popis noun (account in words)
Danish
1 entries- beskrivelse noun (account in words)
Dari
3 entries- تَصْوِیر noun (account in words)
- تَوصِیف noun (account in words)
- وَصْف noun (account in words)
Dutch
2 entries- beschrijving noun (account in words)
- descriptie noun (account in words)
Esperanto
1 entries- priskribo noun (account in words)
Estonian
2 entries- kirjeldamine noun (act of describing)
- kirjeldus noun (account in words)
Finnish
4 entries- kuvaaminen noun (act of describing)
- kuvaileva tutkimus noun (linguistics: descriptive linguistic survey)
- kuvailu noun (act of describing)
- kuvailu noun (linguistics: act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage)
French
2 entries- description noun (account in words)
- signalement noun (set of characteristics)
Galician
1 entries- descrición noun (account in words)
Georgian
1 entries- აღწერა noun (account in words)
German
2 entries- Beschreibung noun (account in words)
- Deskription noun (account in words)
Greek
1 entries- περιγραφή noun (account in words)
Hebrew
1 entries- תיאור \ תֵּאוּר noun (account in words)
Hindi
4 entries- वर्णन noun (account in words)
- विवरण noun (account in words)
- विवरण noun (act of describing)
- व्याख्या noun (account in words)
Hungarian
3 entries- leírás noun (account in words)
- leírás noun (set of characteristics)
- személyleírás noun (set of characteristics)
Icelandic
1 entries- lýsing noun (account in words)
Ido
1 entries- deskripto noun (account in words)
Indonesian
1 entries- deskripsi noun (account in words)
Iranian Persian
3 entries- تَصْویر noun (account in words)
- تُوصیف noun (account in words)
- وَصْف noun (account in words)
Irish
3 entries- comharthaí noun (set of characteristics)
- comharthaí aithne noun (set of characteristics)
- comharthaí sóirt noun (set of characteristics)
Italian
1 entries- descrizione noun (account in words)
Japanese
4 entries- 描写 noun (account in words)
- 記載 noun (taxonomy: scientific documentation of a taxon)
- 記述 noun (account in words)
- 説明 noun (account in words)
Kazakh
2 entries- баяндау noun (account in words)
- сипаттау noun (account in words)
Khmer
3 entries- ពណ៌នា noun (account in words)
- ពិពណ៌នា noun (account in words)
- ព្យាករណ៍ noun (account in words)
Korean
4 entries- 기술 noun (account in words)
- 묘사 noun (account in words)
- 서술 noun (account in words)
- 설명 noun (account in words)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- баяндоо noun (account in words)
- сыпаттоо noun (account in words)
Ladino
1 entries- deskripsion noun (account in words)
Lao
1 entries- ການພັນລະນາ noun (account in words)
Latin
1 entries- dēscrīptiō noun (account in words)
Latvian
2 entries- apraksts noun (account in words)
- attēlojums noun (account in words)
Ligurian
1 entries- descriçion noun (account in words)
Lithuanian
2 entries- apibūdinimas noun (act of describing)
- aprašymas noun (account in words)
Macedonian
1 entries- опис noun (account in words)
Meänkieli
1 entries- kuvvailu noun (account in words)
Mongolian
3 entries- дүрслэл noun (account in words)
- тайлбар noun (account in words)
- тодорхойлолт noun (account in words)
Māori
1 entries- whakaahuatanga noun (account in words)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- beskrivelse noun (account in words)
Occitan
1 entries- descripcion noun (account in words)
Oromo
1 entries- ibsa noun (account in words)
Pashto
2 entries- تصوير noun (account in words)
- توصيف noun (account in words)
Polish
1 entries- opis noun (account in words)
Portuguese
1 entries- descrição noun (account in words)
Romanian
2 entries- descriere noun (account in words)
- descripție noun (account in words)
Russian
3 entries- описа́ние noun (account in words)
- описа́ние noun (act of describing)
- описа́ние noun (set of characteristics)
Scots
1 entries- descreeption noun (account in words)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- tuairisgeul noun (account in words)
- tuairisgeul noun (set of characteristics)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- òpis noun (account in words)
- о̀пис noun (account in words)
Slovak
1 entries- popis noun (account in words)
Slovene
1 entries- opis noun (account in words)
Spanish
2 entries- descripción noun (account in words)
- señalamiento noun (set of characteristics)
Swedish
2 entries- beskrivning noun (account in words)
- signalement noun (set of characteristics)
Tagalog
2 entries- deskripsyon noun (account in words)
- paglalarawan noun (account in words)
Tajik
3 entries- васф noun (account in words)
- тавсиф noun (account in words)
- тасвир noun (account in words)
Tatar
3 entries- тасвир noun (account in words)
- тасвирлама noun (account in words)
- тасвирлау noun (act of describing)
Telugu
1 entries- వర్ణన noun (account in words)
Thai
2 entries- การพรรณนา noun (account in words)
- การพรรณนา noun (act of describing)
Tibetan
4 entries- ཁས་གསལ་བའི་བྱིན་གྲངས། noun (set of characteristics)
- ངོ་སྤྲོད་བྱེད་པ། noun (act of describing)
- འགྲེལ་བཤད། noun (account in words)
- རིག་གནས་ཀྱི་དོན་སྤྲོད་དངོས་འཛིན། noun (taxonomy: scientific documentation of a taxon)
Turkish
3 entries- tanım noun (account in words)
- tavsif noun (account in words)
- vasif noun (set of characteristics)
Turkmen
1 entries- beýan noun (account in words)
Ukrainian
1 entries- о́пис noun (account in words)
Urdu
3 entries- بَیان noun (account in words)
- تَعْرِیف noun (account in words)
- وَصْف noun (account in words)
Uyghur
1 entries- تەسۋىر noun (account in words)
Uzbek
3 entries- tasvir noun (account in words)
- tavsif noun (account in words)
- vasf noun (account in words)
Vietnamese
2 entries- sự miêu tả noun (account in words)
- sự mô tả noun (account in words)
Yiddish
4 entries- באַשרײַבונג noun (account in words)
- באַשרײַבונג noun (set of characteristics)
- באַשרײַבעכץ noun (account in words)
- באַשרײַבעכץ noun (set of characteristics)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
We need a detailed description of what happened.
Source: tatoeba (25173)
A full description of him has been circulated in every newspaper.
Source: tatoeba (37496)
The scenery is beautiful beyond description.
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