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Melting pot   /mˈɛltɪŋ pɑt/   Listen
Melting pot

noun
1.
An environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilated.
2.
A vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions.  Synonym: crucible.





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"Melting pot" Quotes from Famous Books



... to have one shilling in every twenty for his labor. All the old silver in the colony, wornout plate, battered tankards, buckles, and spoons, and especially the bullion seized by the buccaneers then sailing the Spanish Main (for all was honest that came to Hull's melting pot), was brought in for coinage, and the mintmaster rapidly grew to be the millionnaire of the colony, and suitors came from far and wide for the hand of his daughter. Among them was Samuel Sewall, who ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various


Words linked to "Melting pot" :   surround, vessel, environment, environs, surroundings


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