Examples of Description of a Place in English

To do it description of a place in English, certain general writing guidelines must be taken into account, as well as the vocabulary to be used:

• Specific vocabulary, typical of the place to be described. For example: the peak of a mountain(the peak of a mountain), shelter(shelter).
• placements: frequent word combinations. For example: a bustling city(a lively city), the pristine waters of the lake(the pure waters of the lake).
• Comparative and superlative, which allow one place to be compared with another or with the rest. For example: This is the best place I've ever been to.

• See also: Adjectives to describe places in English

How to describe a place in English?

Some general guidelines for describing a place are:

• Go from general to details. The logical order is to describe the most important first, what stands out the most, the most obvious, and then move on to the details.
• Go from objective to subjective description. Once an objective description of a place has been made (what is it like?
• Include memories and emotions
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  . Describing personal feelings makes the description more evocative and more interesting to the reader or listener.

• It can help you: Description of a person in English

Vocabulary to describe a city in English

The classification of a region, according to its size, is:

• City/ city (large size and with a lot of population)
• town/ town, city (smaller than a big city and with less population)
• Village/ little town, village (small in size and with little population)

Adjectives to describe a city

To describe a city and provide information in both an objective and subjective way, we use adjectives as:

ancient ancient	fascinating fascinating	picturesque picturesque
bustling with a lot of movement, lively	historical historical	pleasant pleasant
busy busy	huge enormous	polluted contaminated
captivating captivating	industrial industrial	quaint picturesque, evocative
charming charming	interesting interesting	quiet silent
cheap cheap	big big	safe sure
contemporary contemporary	lively animated	sleepy lethargic, quiet
cosmopolitan cosmopolitan	mining mining	slow-paced slow paced, leisurely
crowded crowded, crowded	modern modern	small little
exciting fascinating	multi cultural multi cultural	stunning dazzling
expensive expensive	noisy noisy	vibrant vibrant
face-paced vertiginous	old old

informal expressions

There are expressions that reflect the opinion of the speaker or writer about a place. For example:

• blow (my) mind/ blow the head. For example: The Grand Canyon just blewmymind./ The Colorado Canyon blew my mind.
• out of this world/ something from another world. For example: The south of France is out of this world./ The South of France is something from another world.
• worth it/ worth. For example: This place is totally worth it./ This place is totally worth it.

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Vocabulary to describe a city

Some nouns Commonly used in city descriptions are:

downtown center	theater theater	bus stops bus stop
street street	movie theater cinema	pedestrian crossing crosswalk
avenue avenue	bank bank	traffic lights traffic light
main street main Street	shopping mall mall	road road
city ​​hall city ​​hall	street market Street market	airport airport
post office mail	financial district financial district	car park parking lot
square square	waterfront waterfront	pharmacy pharmacy
park park	cathedral Cathedral	bakery bakery
museum museum	church church	grocery store market, warehouse
gallery Gallery	temper temple	fruit shop greengrocery

Attention: There are differences between American and British English in terms of writing and vocabulary related to a city. For example: movie theater (US), cinema (UK); theater (US), theater (UK); city ​​hall (US), town hall (UK); main street (US), high street (UK).

There are expressions to make a more vivid description of a city:

• A hive of activity / an anthill, a place of much activity. For example: Cirencester has turned into a hive of activity in the Cotswolds./ Cirencester has become a very active place in the Cotswolds.
• a ghosttown/ a ghost town. For example: We visited the city late at night and it was to ghost town./ We visited the city late at night and it was a ghost town.
• second to none/ the most, insurmountable. For example: The Louvre Museum is second to none./ The Louvre Museum is second to none.
• In the middle of nowhere / in the middle of nowhere. For example: The mining town of Antofagasta in Chile is in the middle of nowhere./ The mining city of Antofagasta in Chile is in the middle of nowhere.

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Vocabulary to describe a place in nature in English

Depending on the type of natural landscape, a place can be:

• the mountain/ the mountain
• the beach/ the beach
• The countryside/ field

Adjectives to describe a natural place

The most appropriate adjectives to describe and provide information about a natural place are:

breath taking impressive, breath taking	peaceful don't worry	unaltered unchanged
calm down don't worry	pleasant pleasant	unique only
contaminated contaminated	polluted contaminated	unspoiled pure, unharmed
deserted desert	quiet calm, silent	untouched pure, intact
impressive awesome	relaxing relaxing	vast vast
incredible incredible	remote remote, secluded	virgin virgin
isolated remote	secluded recondite	warm tempered
magical magical	stunning dazzling	wonderful marvelous
majestic majestic	sublime sublime	sunny sunny
overwhelming startling

Vocabulary to describe a natural place

Some nouns that are used to describe a natural place are:

scenery landscape	islands island	cliff cliff
views views	river river	national park National Park
hills hill	lake lake	hiking hiking
forest forest	streaming stream	trail path
jungle jungle	waterfall cataract, cascade	path path
desert desert	valley valley	wildlife wild life, wild life
sand dunes dunes	plain plain

There are expressions to make a more vivid description of a natural place. For example: youhat plateau in australia is in the middle of nowhere./ That plateau in Australia is in the middle of nowhere.

Examples of a place description in English

“In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels”.

 – A farewell to arms – Ernest Hemingway

At the end of the summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that faced the mountains on the other side of the river and the plain. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders parched and bleached by the sun, and the water was crystal clear and ran fast and blue through the channels.

– Farewell to arms – Ernest Hemingway

“The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn”.

– The picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

The study was filled with the strong scent of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred through the trees of the garden, came through the open door the deep aroma of lilacs, or the more delicate perfume of cacti in flower.

– The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

“So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea”.

– To the lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

The morning was so pleasant, except for an occasional gust of wind, that the sea and the sky they seemed made of the same fabric, as if there were sails in the sky, or the clouds had fallen into the sea.

– To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

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• Countable and Uncountable Nouns in English
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• Qualifying adjectives in English
• English prefixes and suffixes
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