melting pot

See also: melting-pot

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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

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: sulatuspata
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: χόανος m (khóanos)

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• Italian: crogiolo (it) m
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• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

place where many divergent things come together and are homogenized

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大熔爐／大熔炉 (zh), 大熔炉 (zh) (dàrónglú)

• Esperanto: fandopoto
• Finnish: sulatusuuni
• French: melting pot (fr) m
• Georgian: სადნობი ქვაბი (sadnobi kvabi)
• German: Schmelztiegel (de) m, Schmelztopf m
• Italian: crogiolo (it) m, melting pot, calderone (it) m
• Japanese: 人種のるつぼ (じんしゅのるつぼ, jinshunorutsubo)
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• Kazakh: қайнаған қазан (qainağan qazan)
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• Norwegian: smeltedigel (no)
• Persian: پاتیل ذوب (pâtil-e zob)
• Portuguese: caldeirão (pt) m
• Russian: плави́льный котёл m (plavílʹnyj kotjól)
• Spanish: crisol (es)
• Swedish: smältdegel (sv) c