Synonyms for describer

Grammar : Noun

Spell : dih-skrahyb

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈskraɪb

Définition of describer

Origin : early 13c., descriven, from Old French descrivre, descrire (13c.), from Latin describere "to write down, copy; sketch, represent" (see description). Reconstructed with Latin spelling 16c. Related: Describable; described, describes, describing.

As in narrator : noun storyteller

Example sentences :

He was a teacher of morality as well as a describer of nature, which is more than his Lordship is.
Extract from : « Table-Talk » by William Hazlitt

As a describer of scenery he is unmatched among his contemporaries.
Extract from : « A Short History of French Literature » by George Saintsbury

A bibliographe is a describer of books and other literary arrangements.
Extract from : « Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by Isaac Disraeli

If things are not what they are known as, then they are not what they are known as to a describer.
Extract from : « John Dewey's logical theory » by Delton Thomas Howard

Not a describer nor a ruler nor a mingler and yet there is not a difference that is not greater.
Extract from : « Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein » by Gertrude Stein

Of the scenery of loch or lake, of hill or mountain, he was at once an ardent lover and a describer who has never been equalled.
Extract from : « Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 » by George Saintsbury

As a describer of life and manners, he must be allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank.
Extract from : « Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, and Swift » by Samuel Johnson

When handled it always tries to bite, perhaps out of revenge for the abominably long Latin name given it by its describer.
Extract from : « A Book of Natural History » by Various

Descriptions are worth while only when made from living specimens before the eyes of the describer.
Extract from : « The Pears of New York » by U. P. Hedrick

Kingsley, though scarcely so graceful and vivid a describer, had a keener and more constant sense of natural beauty.
Extract from : « Australian Writers » by Desmond Byrne

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