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The photographic dictionary illustrates thousands of common nouns and simple concepts with beautiful photographs. This dictionary differs from other dictionaries in several ways:

• Language that is simpler and easier to understand than sites like Wikipedia
• Short, to the point definitions of words
• Every entry illustrated by a photograph
• All names are given for concepts or nouns that are known by a different name in different parts of the world.

You can use this dictionary for a variety of purposes:

• As an English as a second language (ESL) resource
• As a children's picture dictionary
• As a teaching aid or home schooling resource
• As a cross-cultural reference for quickly showing someone a visual representation of a word they don't understand
• As a writing inspiration
• As a poetry resource for finding rhyming words
• As a memory learning aid or memorization booster
• As a source of stock images
• And simply as a website to browse to look at the pictures!

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. Some of the images have had the licenses changed or have been removed since they were used on this site. 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 you want modifications made like the image removed or the attribution changed, just sign up and add a comment on the entry. Some images that appear to be otherwise uncredited are credited here. More information about this site is found 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. If you have a photo that suits any word in the dictionary, whether CC licensed or commercially available on Getty images or a similar service (for $5 for under as unfortunately this site isn't an earner), please contact me with a link to your image.