Simple Online Photographic Dictionary

An online dictionary or encyclopaedia with beautiful photographs illustrating thousands of common nouns and simple concepts.

Ever tried to look something up on Wikipedia and been hit by a wall of information that is far too complex to wrap your head around? Big words, heavy scientific content, when all you want is something simple but slightly more than you'd get by looking in an ordinary dictionary.

Well, this site is for you. This simple dictionary covers the most common nouns and concepts that a young child would be interested in, making it a wonderful children's dictionary. You can sit and browse the dictionary together with a child and not have to worry about overly complicated content, or age-inappropriate content.

You can also use this dictionary as a tool to learn English with. It is full of photographs of common English nouns and the language used, while designed to be very simple for a young audience, is also perfect for adults that are learning to speak English as a second language. It is also a nice resource to browse simply to look at the pictures. You can view the dictionary either by letter using the alphabet at the top of the page, or by category.

Almost all of the images are sourced from flickr and were licensed under the Creative Commons-licensed content for commercial use, adaptation, modification or building upon at the time of sourcing. No copyright infringement is intended by the use of these photos. If you are the author of one of the photos, or the photo is of you, or you find an image offensive and want modifications made like the image removed or the attribution changed, just add a comment on the entry, although you might want to read this blog entry first. Some images that appear to be otherwise uncredited are credited here.

And last but not least, if you are a photographer and are looking for an excuse to take more photos, check out the Wish List. It has all the dictionary words that have photos that are just not quite right. There's also the Incomplete List which is just words that haven't been fully added yet. New submissions without text will go into this group.