melting pot

See also: melting-pot

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Noun

melting pot (plural melting pots)

A crucible, or similar pot, used to fuse mixtures of metals etc.
(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)

melting pot

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