melting pot

See also: melting-pot

English

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Noun

melting pot (plural melting pots)

1. A crucible, or similar pot, used to fuse mixtures of metals etc.
2. (figurative) A place where many divergent things (often races or cultures, but also talents) come together and are homogenized.

   The festival is a true racial melting pot; people from dozens of countries take part speaking many languages.

   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 43:

     Three-quarters of a century ago this edifice, garishly handsome in the city’s brashest manner, had been dedicated, on the cornerstone, “to Pythianism”, without any embarrassment at the clash of Greek and Mesopotamian metaphors. Such plundering and jumbling of the storehouse of yesterday’s empires, this melting pot or métissage of past power, was the true indicator of present might.

Translations

crucible or similar pot

• Bulgarian: тигел (bg) m (tigel)
• Catalan: gresol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: smeltkroes (nl) m
• Esperanto: fandujo, kaldrono (eo)
• Finnish: sulatuspata
• French: creuset (fr) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: χόανος m (khóanos)

• Italian: crogiolo (it) m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: griġjol m
• Ottoman Turkish: پوته (pota)
• Polish: tygiel (pl) m
• Portuguese: cadinho (pt) m

place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized

• Catalan: gresol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大熔爐／大熔炉 (zh) (dàrónglú)

• Dutch: smeltkroes (nl) m
• Esperanto: fandopoto
• Finnish: sulatusuuni (fi)
• French: melting pot (fr) m
• Georgian: სადნობი ქვაბი (sadnobi kvabi)
• German: Schmelztiegel (de) m, Schmelztopf m
• Hebrew: כור היתוך
• Hungarian: olvasztótégely (hu)
• Italian: crogiolo (it) m, melting pot m, calderone (it) m
• Japanese: 人種のるつぼ (じんしゅのるつぼ, jinshunorutsubo)
• Kazakh: қайнаған қазан (qainağan qazan)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: smeltedigel (no)
• Persian: پاتیل ذوب (pâtil-e zob)
• Polish: tygiel (pl) m
• Portuguese: caldeirão (pt) m
• Russian: плави́льный котёл m (plavílʹnyj kotjól)
• Spanish: crisol (es)
• Swedish: smältdegel (sv) c
• Welsh: tawddlestr m

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English melting pot.

Noun

melting pot m (invariable)

1. melting pot