description word
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
description word (plural description words)
- (grammar) An adjective.
- 2006, Tanya Remer Altmann, The Wonder Years: Helping Your Baby and Young Child Successfully Negotiate Major Developmental Milestones (e-book edition without page numbers):
- They learn not just nouns, but description words (adjectives), action words (verbs), and others.
- 2010, Julie Gray, Get That Job With The Right CV: Teach Yourself, Hodder Education (part of Hachette UK), in the series Teach Yourself (e-book edition without page numbers):
- Adjectives, or description words, are another way to turn a standard role or activity into something special.
- 2010, Paul Werny, English Filipino Work book, 2nd edition, Median press, p.99:
- Both can be used interchangably but Palá cannot be used with adjectives (description words)
- 2011/2015, Joan N. Kaderavek, Language Disorders in Children: Fundamental Concepts of Assessment and Intervention. Second Edition, Pearson, p.222:
- It includes vocabulary related to home, people, action words, description words, pronouns, prepositions, and question words.
- 2013, Alison Amend, Adam Robinson, Cracking the SAT Literature Subject Test, 2013-2014 Edition, Princeton Review, page 43:
- Adjective: description word that modifies a noun
- 2006, Tanya Remer Altmann, The Wonder Years: Helping Your Baby and Young Child Successfully Negotiate Major Developmental Milestones (e-book edition without page numbers):
Synonyms[edit]
- adjective
- describing word
- noun adjective, adnoun (archaic)
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Translations[edit]
adjective — see adjective