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Melting Pot1. (idiomatic) A place where many divergent things (often races or cultures, but also talents) come together and are homogenized. The festival is a true racial melting pot; people from dozens of countries take part speaking many languages. Wiktionary.org text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. | |
Metaphor(uncountable, rhetoric) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn’t, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, but in the case of English without the words like or as, which would imply a simile. Wiktionary.org text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. | |