metalcore

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noun

A subgenre of rock music which fuses extreme metal and hardcore punk.

OriginEnglish hardcorebf. ← Middle English metal ← Old French meta →
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Meanings

nounmetalcore (uncountable)
  1. uncountableentertainmentA subgenre of rock music which fuses extreme metal and hardcore punk.

Origin

  1. Latinmetallum
  2. Old Frenchmeta
  3. Middle Englishmetal
  4. Englishmetal
  5. Englishhardcorebf.
  6. Englishmetalcore

From metal + -core.

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Translations

Polish metalcore
  • metalcorerock music genre

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

metalcore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metalcore

MLA

“metalcore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metalcore. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “metalcore,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metalcore.

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