melting pot

melting pot
noun
1. an environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilated (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms: ↑environment, ↑environs, ↑surroundings, ↑surround
2. a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions
• Syn: ↑crucible
• Hypernyms: ↑vessel

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noun, pl ⋯ pots [count]
: a place (such as a city or country) where different types of people live together and gradually create one community
— usually singular

The city is a melting pot of different cultures.

the American melting pot

in the melting pot
Brit : not yet certain or finally decided : still changing or likely to change

Our plans are still in the melting pot.

It looked like our team was winning, but then everything went back in the melting pot. [=the outcome became uncertain again]

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ˈmelting pot [melting pot melting pots] noun usually singular
a place or situation in which large numbers of people, ideas, etc. are mixed together

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the vast melting pot of American society

Idiom: ↑in the melting pot  
Culture:
The phrase ‘the melting pot’ has been used to describe the US, because it is a country in which people from many different races and cultures are ‘melted’ together, i.e. mixed, to form the US people. The British writer Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) wrote a play called The Melting Pot (1903) about Jewish immigrants in America.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • Melting pot — Melt ing pot n. 1. A vessel in which anything is melted; a crucible. [1913 Webster] 2. (Sociology) (fig.) A place where people of different backgrounds become similar in culture. The United States has often been referred to as a melting pot,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • melting pot — melting ,pot noun count a situation in which there are many different types of people, ideas, religions, etc. existing together in the melting pot BRITISH in the process of changing …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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