- a place or situation in which large numbers of different people, ideas, etc. are mixed together
- the vast melting pot of American society
CultureThe phrase 'the melting pot' has been used to describe the US, because it is a country in which people from many different backgrounds and cultures are mixed together to form the US people. The British writer Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) wrote a play called The Melting Pot (1903) about Jewish immigrants in America.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See melting pot in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryin the melting pot
- (especially British English) likely to change; in the process of changing
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