ashtray
noun/ˈæʃtreɪ/
Frequency rank: #16,774 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a small container used to hold cigarette ash and cigarette butts.
Example sentence
He stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray on the table.
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