heavy metal

The origin of the music genre sense is often disputed; it was used by William S. Burroughs in Soft Machine and Nova Express and various music critics claim to have coined it: Sandy Pearlman,^[1] Lester Bangs and Mike Saunders.^[2][3]

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛv.i ˌmɛt.əl/

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heavy metal (countable and uncountable, plural heavy metals)

1. (sciences, countable) Any metal that has a specific gravity greater than about 5, especially one, such as lead, that is poisonous and may be a hazard in the environment. (There are many different definitions of what counts as a heavy metal; see Heavy metals for a discussion.)
2. (music, uncountable) A genre descended from rock music, characterized by the use of emphatic drumbeats, highly amplified distortion, and overall loudness; often featuring extended instrumental solos and powerful vocals.

   Synonym: metal

3. (uncountable) guns or shot of large size.
4. (uncountable, figurative) Great influence or power.

• (genre of music):

• heavy metal umlaut

• acid rock

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• Heavy metals on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Heavy metal music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English heavy metal.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɦɛ.vi ˈmɛ.təl/

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• Hyphenation: hea‧vy me‧tal

heavy metal m (uncountable)

1. (music) heavy metal

Unadapted borrowing from English heavy metal.

heavy metal m (uncountable)

1. (music) heavy metal

   Synonym: metal

• metallaro

Unadapted borrowing from English heavy metal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɛ.vi ˈmɛ.tal/

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heavy metal m inan (related adjective heavymetalowy)

1. heavy metal (style of music)

• heavy metal I in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• heavy metal II in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• heavy metal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English heavy metal.

heavy metal m (uncountable)

1. (music) heavy metal (genre of rock music)

   Synonyms: metal, (Brazil, dated) rock pauleira

• metaleiro

Unadapted borrowing from English heavy metal.

heavy metal n (uncountable)

1. heavy metal

Unadapted borrowing from English heavy metal.

• IPA^(key): /ˌxebi meˈtal/ [ˌxe.β̞i meˈt̪al]

heavy metal m (uncountable)

1. heavy metal (genre of music)

   Synonym: rock pesado

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “heavy metal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Unadapted borrowing from English heavy metal.

heavy metal c

1. (music) heavy metal

   Synonym: hårdrock

• heavy metal in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• heavy metal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)