Simple Online Photographic Dictionary

An online dictionary or encyclopaedia with beautiful photographs illustrating thousands of common nouns and simple concepts. 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 a tool to learn English with
• 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
• 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. 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. 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.