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SOAP DISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does soap dish mean?
• SOAP DISH (noun)
The noun SOAP DISH has 1 sense:
1. a bathroom or kitchen fixture for holding a bar of soap
Familiarity information: SOAP DISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bathroom or kitchen fixture for holding a bar of soap
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("soap dish" is a kind of...):
fixture (an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household))
Context examples
She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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