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]

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 massive sound, highly amplified distortion, and overall loudness, often with extended guitar solos, and lyrics that involve aggressive or fantastic imagery.
3. (uncountable) guns or shot of large size.
4. (uncountable, figurative) Great influence or power.

• heavy metal umlaut

• acid rock

Wikiquote

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

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• IPA^(key): /ˌɦɛ.vi ˈmɛ.təl/

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• Hyphenation: hea‧vy me‧tal

heavy metal m (uncountable)

1. (music) heavy metal

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heavy metal m (uncountable)

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   Synonym: metal

• metallaro

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• IPA^(key): /ˈxɛ.vi ˈmɛ.tal/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtal

heavy metal m inan (related adjective heavymetalowy)

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• 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

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heavy metal m (uncountable)

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   Synonyms: metal, (Brazil, dated) rock pauleira

• metaleiro

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heavy metal n (uncountable)

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

heavy metal m (uncountable)

1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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heavy metal c

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   Synonym: hårdrock

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