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calderone — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cauldron noun A large round pot used for boiling liquids over a fire.
  • melting pot noun A place or society where people of many different nationalities, cultures and backgrounds live together and blend into something new.

Senses

calderone is used for these senses in English:

  • cauldron A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.
  • cooking pot (cookware) any vessel (such as a saucepan), with or without a lid, used to cook food
  • melting pot (figurative) A place where many divergent things (often races or cultures, but also talents) come together and are homogenized.

cauldron — full definition

  1. noun A large round pot used for boiling liquids over a fire.
  2. noun A tense or chaotic situation.

melting pot — full definition

  1. noun A place or society where people of many different nationalities, cultures and backgrounds live together and blend into something new.
  2. noun A situation in which things are being mixed up and remade, so that the outcome is not yet settled; usually in the phrase 'in the melting pot'.
  3. noun A vessel used for melting metal or other solids.

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