noun

ashtray

ASH-tray

noun

A small dish or container used to hold ash and cigarette butts.

"He tapped his cigarette against the edge of the ashtray."

"The old ashtray on the coffee table was overflowing with butts."

How to Use Ashtray

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishA small container for cigarette ash and stubbed-out butts.

Common pairings

empty the ashtray stub out a cigarette in the ashtray

ashtrayed past tense, ashtrays plural, ashtrays singular

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He tapped his cigarette against the edge of the _____.

A straightforward compound of ash and tray.

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