soap dish

noun

1. a dish designed to hold a bar of soap, especially as a bathroom or kitchen fixture attached to a sink, lavatory, or bathtub.

Word History and Origins

Origin of soap dish¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

The shower curtain has been pulled down: the soap dish is broken off.

From The Daily Beast

(from his bed, suspiciously, to Culchard, who is setting fire to a small pastille in a soap-dish).

From Project Gutenberg

She emptied the soap dish, cleaned it, poured in the germicide, and dropped the jade necklace into the liquid.

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There were a soap dish and a small pitcher, and they looked beautiful on the thick white cloth, that was fringed all around.

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She twigs at once what I want, makes a guttural sound, and in half-an-hour or so returns with a soap-dish full of dirty salt.

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The outside cover made a good soap dish, and the inside cover answered well enough for a mirror when he shaved.

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