Picture dictionary
Encyclopedia
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.
Dictionary
A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...
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
Foreign language
A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to, i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her...
, such as in the Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon
Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon
The Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon is a dictionary database of images of various objects in a culturally authentic setting for language learning. All images are presented with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, allowing for broad academic use by language teachers...
. 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
Visual dictionary
A visual dictionary is a dictionary that primarily uses pictures to illustrate the meaning of words. Visual dictionaries are often organized by themes, instead of being an alphabetical list of words. For each theme, an image is labeled with the correct word to identify each component of the item...
, 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.