butter dish

1. 1.

   a small dish (often with a cover) for holding butter at the table

   Broaderdish

Questions about butter dish

What does butter dish mean?

butter dish means "a small dish (often with a cover) for holding butter at the table".

Is butter dish a common word?

butter dish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.