Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A container in which a substance is melted.
- n. A place where immigrants of different cultures or races form an integrated society: "Canadians . . . liked to think of their country as a mosaic rather than a melting pot” ( Kenneth McNaught).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A crucible.
Wiktionary
- n. A crucible, or similar pot, used to fuse mixtures of metals etc.
- n. idiomatic A place where many divergent things (often races or cultures, but also talents) come together and are homogenized.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A vessel in which anything is melted; a crucible.
- n. (Sociology) 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions
- n. an environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilated
Examples
“The University of Pennsylvania’s William Labov, whose classic 1966 study, The Social Stratification of English in New York City, demonstrated that the city is a melting pot of various dialects, should be delighted.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“Embraced, I very much wanted to believe, by all religions; the one-girl religious melting pot I thought maybe I could be.”
Simon & Schuster: Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
“I think we were probably very different, very ahead of the time, because of Chapel Hill being a melting pot and a non-typical typical Southern town.”
“Even if there were—even if “one world” meant a melting pot in which everything comes out a bland mush instead of a salad of varied ingrediCents and textures—I’m not sure that outcome would be palatable.”
“This huge melting pot of religious and philosophical ideas drew on the beliefs of many cultures-Greek, Persian, Jewish, ancient Egyptian, even the religions of the Far East—to create ideas that underpin our whole culture.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘melting pot’.
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My Strange Kitchen
It seems that whenever I look away, new gadgets and devices and tools and dishes and utensils and ingredients are multiplying in my kitchen drawers and my cabinets.
tectonic plates, spoonbill, fork in the road, bowl haircut, whisk away, greasy spoon, melting pot, pan flute, platelets, spooning, pitchfork, jackknife and 101 more...
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Orwellian Purism
Words and phrases George Orwell criticizes in his essay 'Politics and the English Language'.
ring the changes on, take up the cudge..., toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to..., play into the han..., no axe to grind, grist to the mill, fishing in troubl..., on the order of t..., Achilles’ heel, swan song and 162 more...
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US - realia
Words and expressions, people and cultural realia that foreigners associate with the United States
entrepreneurship, can-do-attitude, down-to-earth app..., multicultural soc..., melting pot, cast in the same ..., self-made man, rugged individualism, gap between rich ..., make money, people from all w..., giant with feet o... and 80 more...
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Intertanglement
A list of bejumble and minglement.
intertanglement, mixture, commingle, commixtion, immixture, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, intermixture, medley, minglement, mingle-mangle, blendure and 60 more...
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Pots
What are all these pots doing?
fuss-pot, toss-pot, hot-pot, piss-pot, despot, bam-pot, crackpot, depot, bridgepot, sexpot, hochepot, monkey-pot and 30 more...
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Mythic America
I'm using "myth" NOT in the sense of "fiction" but of larger-than-life. This is not a list of important people or events in American history, or it would be much longer. It's a list of people, even...
george washington, lewis and clark, sacagawea, sacajawea, molly pitcher, bunker hill, gunfighter, outlaw, citizen soldier, valley forge, melting pot, betsy ross and 107 more...
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this modern world
Markers of the zeitgeist, don't expect all of these to go the distance. The great majority are taken from Paul McFedries's excellent book "Wordspy"
retail therapy, compulsive shoppi..., clicks-and-mortar, dot.commer, middlescence, boomeritis, dorian graying, sandwich generation, boomeranger, full-nest syndrome, wellderly, brand equity and 226 more...
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Katharina's list
immigration
hispanics, difficulty, immigrant, to immigrate into, to adopt differen..., acculturation, melting pot, to encourage, to grant asylum, to apply for asylum
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