The article is devoted to the problem of lexical description of words for automatic translation
of texts. In particular, the description understood in terms of object classes is focused. The author
gives attention to two lexicographical conceptions, namely the conception of electronic dictionary
proposed by G. Gross and the object oriented approach proposed by W. Banyś. The article aims at
the comparison of these two conceptions, as well as at presenting how the notion of the object class
is used to describe words
