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noun

Melting pot n.

A vessel in which anything is melted; a crucible.

(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, though the differences in cultures of recently arrived immigrants persists beyond the generation of immigrants.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Melting pot" Quotes from Famous Books

... no melting pot in this part of the world. In the Lower House of the Hungarian parliament sit forty-three Croatian delegates, Croatia being that part of southwestern Hungary near the Adriatic where the inhabitants are of Slav blood. By the Hungarian constitution those delegates have the right to speak ...

— Face to Face with Kaiserism • James W. Gerard

... misses from "finishing" schools, demimondaine, social "bounders" deluded by the glitter of their own jewelry and the thrill of their wasted money that they were climbing into New York society—these and other curious types rubbed elbows in this melting pot of folly. The tinkle of glasses, the increasing buzz of conversation, the empty laughter of too many emptied cocktail glasses mingled with the droning music of an Hawaiian string quartette ...

— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball

Words linked to "Melting pot" : surroundings, environs, vessel, crucible, surround, environment