Word.ws English Dictionary

butter keeper

butter keeper noun: a type of butter dish consisting of a two-piece container in which butter is stored in the top portion, while the bottom portion is filled with an inch of water in order to keep the butter fresh.

Noun

butter keeper (plural butter keepers)

  1. A type of butter dish consisting of a two-piece container in which butter is stored in the top portion, while the bottom portion is filled with an inch of water in order to keep the butter fresh.

Forms of butter keeper

pluralbutter keepers

Questions about butter keeper

What does butter keeper mean?
Butter keeper means a type of butter dish consisting of a two-piece container in which butter is stored in the top portion, while the bottom portion is filled with an inch of water in order to keep the butter fresh.
What part of speech is butter keeper?
Butter keeper is a noun.
What is the plural of butter keeper?
The plural of butter keeper is butter keepers.

Words near butter keeper in the dictionary

  1. butter flowers
  2. butter fruit
  3. butter fruits
  4. butter icing
  5. butter icings
  6. butter keeper
  7. butter keepers
  8. butter knife
  9. butter knives
  10. butter lamp
  11. butter lamps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: butter keeper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “butter keeper.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/butter_keeper. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.