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

A singing "brussel sprout", Italy's soft play area and a man in a soap dish: just some of the highlights, according to Graham Norton, of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.

From BBC • May 13, 2023

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

From Scientific American • Dec. 13, 2022

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 • Jun. 9, 2022

He once let her have it for a soap dish she introduced into one of the pristine spaces he had made for her.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2020

Occasionally he held the soap dish down until it filled with water and sank.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole