French word

melting-pot

Pronunciation

IPA/mɛltiŋpɔt/

Meaning

  • masculine nounmelting pot

Example

Cette ville est un melting-pot.

This city is a melting pot.

Illustration for melting-pot (melting pot)

More examples

Les marchés locaux forment souvent un melting-pot multiculturel.

Local markets often form a multicultural melting pot.

Core concept

A crowded civic crossroads where languages, customs, and identities meet and reshape one another.

Common phrases

  • une ville melting-pot

    a melting-pot city

  • melting-pot multiculturel

    multicultural melting pot

Similar words

diversité: The presence of diverse backgrounds and cultures within the same community.
mélange: A combination formed when multiple different elements come together.

Definition in French

Désigne une ville ou une société où des populations et des cultures différentes se rencontrent et se mélangent.

Word origin

The French noun comes from the English compound melting pot, a culinary image applied to immigrant societies and cultural mixing.

Usage tips

  • Melting-pot can suggest assimilation as well as diversity, while diversité or métissage can state a diversity-focused idea more directly.

Opposites

  • monoculturemonoculturenoun

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