melting pot
noun /ˈmeltɪŋ pɒt/
/ˈmeltɪŋ pɑːt/
[usually singular]Idioms - 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 races 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.
Idioms
in the melting pot
- (especially British English) likely to change; in the process of changing