diff --git a/sklearn/compose/_column_transformer.py b/sklearn/compose/_column_transformer.py
index b16052913c5fe..8f33488a28e2f 100644
--- a/sklearn/compose/_column_transformer.py
+++ b/sklearn/compose/_column_transformer.py
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ class ColumnTransformer(_BaseComposition, TransformerMixin):
     deprecation.
 
     This estimator allows different columns or column subsets of the input
-    to be transformed separately and the results combined into a single
-    feature space.
+    to be transformed separately and the features generated by each transformer
+    will be concatenated to form a single feature space.
     This is useful for heterogeneous or columnar data, to combine several
     feature extraction mechanisms or transformations into a single transformer.