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Melting pot   Listen
noun
Melting pot  n.  
1.
A vessel in which anything is melted; a crucible.
2.
(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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"Melting pot" Quotes from Famous Books



... shrivelled; quite a large pile of rough, shapeless ingots of gold and silver, conveying the suggestion that at various times large quantities of gold and silver plate and jewellery had been run through the melting pot; and, finally, a leather bag containing not far short of a peck measure of gems of every conceivable description, all of the stones being cut, and evidently taken from pieces of jewellery of various kinds that had probably been broken up and melted. ...
— A Middy in Command - A Tale of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood


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


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