Gothic

adj. of or pertaining to the Goths or their language; of or pertaining to a style of medieval architecture characterized by pointed arches and vaulting; of or pertaining to the artistic style of medieval northern Europe; medieval; barbaric

n. artistic style of medieval northern Europe (including architecture, painting, music, etc.); extinct Germanic language of the Goths

Gothic or Goth may refer to:Germanic tribeGoths (Gothos, Getas, Gota), a Germanic tribe The Gothic language, the language of the GothsGothic alphabet
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Noun
1. extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas
(hypernym) East Germanic, East Germanic language
2. a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
(synonym) black letter
(hypernym) font, fount, typeface, face
3. a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches
(synonym) Gothic architecture
(hypernym) architectural style, style of architecture, type of architecture
(hyponym) perpendicular, perpendicular style, English-Gothic, English-Gothic architecture
Adjective
1. characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German
(pertainym) Gothic, black letter
2. of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation"
(pertainym) Gothic
3. of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations"
(pertainym) Goth

Adjective
1. as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating"
(synonym) medieval, mediaeval
(similar) nonmodern
2. characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"
(similar) strange, unusual
(classification) literature

(n.)
The style described in Gothic, a., 2.
  

(n.)
The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.
  

(n.)
A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.
  

(a.)
Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.
  

(a.)
Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital.
  

A style with pointed arches and foils. often mixed with Chinese and Rococo elements.