melting pot en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
(place where divergent things come together): Popularized by the British author Israel Zangwill in his play The Melting Pot (1908).
Meanings
- A crucible, or similar pot, used to fuse mixtures of metals, etc.
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(figuratively) 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.
Believe it or not, Belter slang — or, more officially, Belter Creole — isn't a completely made-up way of communicating. It's actually a mix of several Earth languages spoken by the original settlers in the Asteroid Belt colonies — very appropriate, as the Belt is a melting pot of several different races, customs and backgrounds.
2016 January 15, Bryan Enk, “Belter Creole 101”, in SYFY, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2022: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.
2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 43:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| melting pots | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (46)
ar قِدْر صَهْر (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · it crogiolo (crucible or similar pot) · he כור היתוך (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · ka სადნობი ქვაბი (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · de Schmelztopf (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · fa پاتیل ذوب (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · el χωνευτήριο (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · it crogiolo (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · fr melting pot (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · it melting pot (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · kk қайнаған қазан (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · bg тигел (crucible or similar pot) · el χοάνη (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · ja 人種のるつぼ (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · ar قِدْر صَهْر (crucible or similar pot) · nl smeltkroes (crucible or similar pot) · th เบ้าหลอมรวม (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · es crisol (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · eo kaldrono (crucible or similar pot) · ota پوته (crucible or similar pot) · eo fandopoto (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · cmn 坩堝 /坩埚 (crucible or similar pot) · cmn 大熔爐 /大熔炉 (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · pt caldeirão (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · ca gresol (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · it calderone (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · eo fandujo (crucible or similar pot) · de Schmelztiegel (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · fi sulatusuuni (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · pl tygiel (crucible or similar pot) · el χωνευτήριο (crucible or similar pot) · pl tygiel (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · pt cadinho (crucible or similar pot) · nl smeltkroes (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · sv smältdegel (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · fr creuset (crucible or similar pot) · fi sulatuspata (crucible or similar pot) · hu olvasztótégely (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · ca gresol (crucible or similar pot) · mt griġjol (crucible or similar pot) · id kuali peleburan (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · cy tawddlestr (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · no smeltedigel (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · grc χόανος (crucible or similar pot) · ms kawah peleburan (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized) · ru плави́льный котёл (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized)