melting pot

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English

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Etymology

Popularized by the British author Israel Zangwill in his play The Melting Pot (1908).

Pronunciation

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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.

   • 2016 January 15, Bryan Enk, “Belter Creole 101”, in SYFY‎:

     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.

Translations

crucible or similar pot

Arabic: قِدْر صَهْر f (qidr ṣahr) Bulgarian: тигел (bg) m (tigel) Catalan: gresol (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 坩堝 / 坩埚 (zh) (gānguō) Dutch: smeltkroes (nl) m Esperanto: fandujo, kaldrono (eo) Finnish: sulatuspata French: creuset (fr) m Greek: χωνευτήριο (el) n (choneftírio) 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

Arabic: قِدْر صَهْر f (qidr ṣahr) 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 Greek: χωνευτήριο (el) n (choneftírio), χοάνη (el) f (choáni) 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 Thai: เบ้าหลอมรวม Welsh: tawddlestr m

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French

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melting pot

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English melting pot.

Noun

melting pot m (invariable)

1. melting pot

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

melting pot

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English melting pot.

Noun

melting pot m (invariable)

1. melting pot