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Definition of Melting pot
1. Noun. An environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilated.
2. Noun. A vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions.
Definition of Melting pot
1. Noun. A crucible, or similar pot, used to fuse mixtures of metals etc. ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic) A place where many divergent things (often races or cultures, but also talents) come together and are homogenized. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melting Pot
Literary usage of Melting pot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"... Ernest, 1876- Honolulu: the melting-pot. KF Gerould. 11 Christmas trees;
etchings made In evergreen groves of California, by E. Haskell. H. Tol- erton. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"This expression refers to broken metal placed in the melting-pot. Pothouse, ie,
Peterhouse, or St. Peter's College, Cambridge. Pot-hunter (sporting), a man ..."
3. Applied Eugenics by Paul Bowman Popenoe, Roswell Hill Johnson (1918)
"APPENDIX C THE "melting pot" America as the "melting pot" of peoples is a picture
often ... The "melting pot," it must be concluded, is a figure of speech; ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"... J 15:638-50 Jl '17 Lawyers in the melting pot. JJ Dodd. English R 29:156-65
Ag '19 Sheltering corruption. Spec 117:576-6 N 11 '16 Greece ..."
5. Genetics; an Introduction to the Study of Heredity by Herbert Eugene Walter (1922)
"THE MELTING-POT or CROSS-BREEDING Hybridization, or cross-breeding, ... Of these,
blending inheritance may be called the typical "melting-pot" in which ..."
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