The photographic dictionary illustrates over five thousand 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
- Words are categorized into familiar groups
- Short, to the point definitions of words
- Alternative 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 source of lists of common items for making quizzes and puzzles
- 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!
You can add your own entries to the dictionary, just sign up and add an entry for a word you can't find.
More information about this site is found here.
