melting pot
melting pot noun: a crucible, or similar pot, used to fuse mixtures of metals, etc.
Noun
melting pot (plural melting pots)
- A crucible, or similar pot, used to fuse mixtures of metals, etc.
- 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.
- Three-quarters of a century ago this edifice, garishly handsome in the city’s brashest manner, had been dedicated, on the cornerstone, “to Pythianism”, without any embarrassment at the clash of Greek and Mesopotamian metaphors. Such plundering and jumbling of the storehouse of yesterday’s empires...2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 43
melting pot meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Arabic and Malay
melting pot in Tamil
- பல்வேறு இனம், மதம் முதலியவற்றைச் சேர்ந்தவர்கள் ஒன்றாய், நன்றாய் உருகிக் கலங்கும் இடம், கலப்புப் பண்பாடு, உருக்குங்குகை
melting pot in Urdu
- کٹھالی
melting pot in Arabic
- crucible or similar pot
- قِدْر صَهْر qidr ṣahr
- place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized
- قِدْر صَهْر qidr ṣahr
melting pot in Malay
- place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized
- kawah peleburan
More languagesFewer languages
- melting pot in Indonesian
- kuali peleburan
- melting pot in Persian
- پاتیل ذوب pâtil-e zob
- melting pot in Thai
- เบ้าหลอมรวม
Forms of melting pot
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Origin of melting pot
(place where divergent things come together): Popularized by the British author Israel Zangwill in his play The Melting Pot (1908).
Questions about melting pot
- What does melting pot mean?
- Melting pot means a crucible, or similar pot, used to fuse mixtures of metals, etc.
- What is melting pot in Tamil?
- Melting pot in Tamil is பல்வேறு இனம், மதம் முதலியவற்றைச் சேர்ந்தவர்கள் ஒன்றாய், நன்றாய் உருகிக் கலங்கும் இடம். See Melting pot meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is melting pot?
- Melting pot is a noun.
- What is the plural of melting pot?
- The plural of melting pot is melting pots.
Words near melting pot in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: melting pot (page history and authors); melting pot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); melting pot (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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