English-Portuguese translations for melting pot

• caldeirão
  Todo aquele lugar é um caldeirão de culturas altamente instável, que pode explodir facilmente. The whole place is a highly unstable melting pot and could easily explode.
  No passado, a União Europeia foi criticada com o fundamento de que iria ser um grande caldeirão no qual as pequenas comunidades e minorias acabariam todas por se perder. In the past the European Union has been criticized on the grounds that it is going to be a great melting pot in which small communities and minorities will all be lost.

Definition of melting pot

• A crucible, or similar pot, used to fuse mixtures of metals etc

Examples

• The festival is a true racial melting pot; people from dozens of countries take part speaking many languages.

Related words

• melting
• smelting
• melting point
• melting down
• melting temperature
• self-melting tape
• smelting works
• snow melting
• flash smelting