Picture dictionary

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A picture dictionary or pictorial dictionary is a dictionary where the definition of a word is displayed in the form of a drawing or photograph. Picture dictionaries are useful in a variety of teaching environments, such as teaching a young child about their native language, or instructing older students in a foreign language, such as in the Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon. Picture dictionaries are often organized by topic instead of being an alphabetic list of words, and are almost always minimizing dictionaries, which only include a small corpus of words.

A similar but distinct concept is the visual dictionary, which is composed of a series of large, labelled images, allowing the user to find the name of a specific component of a larger object.

See also

Language portal

• Visual dictionary
• Knowledge visualization

External links

• CAPL: Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon. Multi-lingual authentic picture dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online
• A minimizing English dictionary with pictures
• Widgit.com Communicate In Print
• Kids Picture Dictionary