melting pot

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. (idiomatic) 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.

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 Polish: tygiel (pl) m Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

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 French: melting pot (fr) m Georgian: სადნობი ქვაბი (sadnobi kvabi) German: Schmelztiegel (de) m, Schmelztopf m Hebrew: כור היתוך‎ 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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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English melting pot.

Noun

melting pot m (invariable)

1. melting pot