alms dish

1. 1.

   a tray for collecting the offering from a congregation

   Synonymsalms tray

   Broadertray

Questions about alms dish

What does alms dish mean?

alms dish means "a tray for collecting the offering from a congregation".

What is another word for alms dish?

Close synonyms include alms tray. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alms dish a common word?

alms dish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.