soap dish

American  

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.

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Etymology

Origin of soap dish

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

"We go for an 85% handmade policy, so even if people who perhaps make soaps, they buy in a soap dish because they're not a ceramicist, that's fine, because it complements the product."

From BBC

As Graham Norton remarked, the Serbian singer appeared to start his act from a "soap dish".

From BBC

These nurdles, the common currency of the plastics industry, then became the soap dish.

From Scientific American

The occupant of Janis Joplin’s former suite displays the soap dish he kept from a gutted bathroom.

From New York Times

The other fixtures, those necessary accessories — the soap dish, the cup holder, the towel rack, the toilet paper holder — are tile-glazed too.

From Los Angeles Times