melting pot
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈmɛltɪŋ pɑt/
- Informal
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- Everyone is welcome at this melting pot of die-hard, hipster, and yuppie sports fans.
- notion of the melting pot
- idea of the melting pot
- American melting pot
And for me, I grew up in Miami, melting pot.
- And for me, I grew up in Miami, melting pot.
- The difference in America is you can come here and they call it the melting pot, right?
- We know that throughout history, the great thriving commercial and even political centers of the world have been open, diverse, tolerant melting pots.
- And as an American, like I, I dig the whole melting pot thing.
- What how do you get a melting pot of these people coming from such diverse backgrounds to function at all together?
- Like there's someone in any ethnicity in my school that's crazy and like I wish I like have pics to prove it, but bitch, my school is a melting pot.
- And pigeon is a melting pot of different languages.
- A lot of fun because it's such a sort of melting pot.
- The rest have just all gone into the melting pot.
- This, this was what we call a melting pot.
Examples
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America's a melting pot.
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We're a diverse group of women, we're all from different cultures, we're basically a melting pot.
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America has long been called a melting pot of nations.
Academic text (1998) -
The whole world is slowly becoming a melting pot of people and ideas.
Blog text (18) -
Just like a fellow poster below noted, the US is the melting pot of the world.
Blog text (26) -
The American melting pot simmers with foods from every nation.
Academic text (2006) -
New York City is known as a melting pot where people from various cultures come together.
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In the melting pot of this neighborhood, you can find traditions and foods from around the world.
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Many believe that a melting pot enriches society by blending diverse ideas and perspectives.
Antonyms
- Offensive
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5.3
The act of separating people or things into different groups, often by law
How Integrated
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'melt' (to blend/lose distinctness) and 'pot' (a vessel) combine to form a straightforward visual metaphor of things blending together, so a learner who knows both words can usually infer it refers to mixing. However, the socio-cultural sense of people and cultures fusing into a new, unified community is a metaphorical extension and carries nuance that may not be fully predictable without prior exposure; similar concepts exist in other languages but often with different lexicalizations.
Etymology
The idiom melting pot comes from the picture of different metals melting together in one pot. By that image, people from many cultures 'mix' and 'become one', so melting pot means a place where different people form a single community.