diff --git a/doc/api/fs.md b/doc/api/fs.md
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--- a/doc/api/fs.md
+++ b/doc/api/fs.md
@@ -430,8 +430,9 @@ included in the iteration results.
 added: v10.10.0
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-A representation of a directory entry, as returned by reading from an
-[`fs.Dir`][].
+A representation of a directory entry, which can be a file or a subdirectory
+within the directory, as returned by reading from an [`fs.Dir`][]. The
+directory entry is a combination of the file name and file type pairs.
 
 Additionally, when [`fs.readdir()`][] or [`fs.readdirSync()`][] is called with
 the `withFileTypes` option set to `true`, the resulting array is filled with