metalhead

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Etymology

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Ancient Greek μέτᾰλλον (métăllon)der.

Latin metallum

Old French metalbor.

Middle English metal

English metal

English -head

English metalhead

From metal + -head.

Noun

metalhead (plural metalheads)

1. (informal) Someone who listens to or is a fan of heavy metal music.

Synonyms

• headbanger
• metaller

Translations

one who listens to (is a fan of) heavy metal music

• Danish: heavyrocker m
• Estonian: hevimees, hevinaine, metallist
• Finnish: hevari (fi)
• French: métalleux (fr) m, métalleuse (fr) f
• German: Metaller (de) m, Metallerin (de) f
• Hebrew: מטאליסט
• Icelandic: málmhaus m
• Italian: metallaro (it) m, metallara (it) f
• Japanese: メタラー (metarā)
• Macedonian: металец m (metalec)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: metalhead m, hardrocker m

  Nynorsk: metalhead m, hardrockar m

• Polish: metalowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: metaleiro (pt) m, metaleira f
• Russian: металли́ст (ru) m (metallíst)
• Spanish: metalero (es) m, metalera (es) f
• Swedish: metalhead c, hårdrockare (sv) c
• Turkish: metalci
• Welsh: pendonciwr m

See also

• hesher