Definition of 'ashtray'
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noun
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noun
a container for smokers' tobacco ashes and cigarette butts, etc.
: also ash trayWebster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Example sentences containing 'ashtray'
The Sun (2013) The Sun (2009) Times, Sunday Times (2007)
A full ashtray was in with my clothes.
The Sun (2007)But in the new cover their tobacco habit has been consigned to the ashtray - the cigarettes have magically disappeared.
The Sun (2006) The Sun (2006)The old pub ashtray was beautifully made and designed, produced in limited numbers and has great nostalgic value, he argues.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)Word Lists
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Translations for 'ashtray'
British English: ashtray /ˈæʃˌtreɪ/
NOUN
An ashtray is a small dish in which people put the ash from their cigarettes and cigars.
An ashtray is a small dish in which people put the ash from their cigarettes and cigars.
- Arabic: مِنْفَضَةُ السَجائر
- Brazilian Portuguese: cinzeiro
- Chinese: 烟灰缸
- Croatian: pepeljara
- Czech: popelník
- Danish: askebæger
- Dutch: asbak
- European Spanish: cenicero
- Finnish: tuhkakuppi
- French: cendrier
- German: Aschenbecher Aschenbecher
- Greek: σταχτοδοχείο
- Italian: portacenere
- Japanese: 灰皿
- Korean: 재떨이
- Norwegian: askebeger
- Polish: popielniczka
- Portuguese: cinzeiro
- Romanian: scrumieră scrumiere
- Russian: пепельница
- Spanish: cenicero
- Swedish: askkopp
- Thai: ที่เขี่ยบุหรี่
- Turkish: küllük
- Ukrainian: попільничка
- Vietnamese: gạt tàn thuốc
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