"melting pot" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-melting pot.ogg Forms: melting pots [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} melting pot (plural melting pots)
  1. A crucible, or similar pot, used to fuse mixtures of metals etc. Categories (topical): Sociology Translations (crucible or similar pot): χόανος (khóanos) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), قِدْر صَهْر (qidr ṣahr) [feminine] (Arabic), тигел (tigel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), gresol [masculine] (Catalan), 坩堝 (Chinese Mandarin), 坩埚 (gānguō) (Chinese Mandarin), smeltkroes [masculine] (Dutch), fandujo (Esperanto), kaldrono (Esperanto), sulatuspata (Finnish), creuset [masculine] (French), χωνευτήριο (choneftírio) [neuter] (Greek), crogiolo [masculine] (Italian), griġjol [masculine] (Maltese), پوته (pota) (Ottoman Turkish), tygiel [masculine] (Polish), cadinho [masculine] (Portuguese)
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  2. (figurative) A place where many divergent things (often races or cultures, but also talents) come together and are homogenized. Tags: figuratively Translations (place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized): قِدْر صَهْر (qidr ṣahr) [feminine] (Arabic), gresol [masculine] (Catalan), 大熔爐 (Chinese Mandarin), 大熔炉 (dàrónglú) (Chinese Mandarin), smeltkroes [masculine] (Dutch), fandopoto (Esperanto), sulatusuuni (Finnish), melting pot [masculine] (French), სადნობი ქვაბი (sadnobi kvabi) (Georgian), Schmelztiegel [masculine] (German), Schmelztopf [masculine] (German), χωνευτήριο (choneftírio) [neuter] (Greek), χοάνη (choáni) [feminine] (Greek), כור היתוך (Hebrew), olvasztótégely (Hungarian), crogiolo [masculine] (Italian), melting pot [masculine] (Italian), calderone [masculine] (Italian), 人種のるつぼ (jinshunorutsubo) (alt: じんしゅのるつぼ) (Japanese), қайнаған қазан (qainağan qazan) (Kazakh), smeltedigel (Norwegian), پاتیل ذوب (pâtil-e zob) (Persian), tygiel [masculine] (Polish), caldeirão [masculine] (Portuguese), плави́льный котёл (plavílʹnyj kotjól) [masculine] (Russian), crisol (Spanish), smältdegel [common-gender] (Swedish), tawddlestr [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-melting_pot-en-noun-HNvsHFVu Disambiguation of 'place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized': 5 95

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          "text": "The festival is a true racial melting pot; people from dozens of countries take part speaking many languages.",
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          "ref": "2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 43:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "sense": "crucible or similar pot",
      "word": "坩堝"
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      "word": "坩埚"
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      "word": "creuset"
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      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "word": "大熔爐"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "word": "olvasztótégely"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "crogiolo"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "melting pot"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "calderone"
    },
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      "alt": "じんしゅのるつぼ",
      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "jinshunorutsubo",
      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "word": "人種のるつぼ"
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      "code": "kk",
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      "roman": "qainağan qazan",
      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "word": "қайнаған қазан"
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      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "word": "smeltedigel"
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      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "pâtil-e zob",
      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "word": "پاتیل ذوب"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "tygiel"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "caldeirão"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "plavílʹnyj kotjól",
      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "плави́льный котёл"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "word": "crisol"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "smältdegel"
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    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized",
      "tags": [
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