Gothic adj

1 characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German

2 of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation"

3 of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations"

4 as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating" [syn: medieval, mediaeval]

5 characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"

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

2 a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries [syn: black letter]

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 [syn: Gothic architecture]

English

Pronunciation

• a RP /ˈɡɒ.θɪk/
• a GenAm /ˈɡɑ.θɪk/

  Rhyme: -ɒθɪk

Noun

Goth•ic

1. an extinct language, once spoken by the Goths in what is now Ukraine and Bulgaria.

Adjective

Gothic or gothic

1. of or related to the Goths.
2. of or related to the architectural style favored in western Europe in the 12th to 16th centuries.
3. of or related to the goth subculture or lifestyle.
4. of or related to a style of fictional writing emphasizing violent or macabre events in a mysterious, desolate setting.
5. of a style of elaborate calligraphy based on medieval writing, also called black letter.
6. of a sans serif typeface using straight, even-width lines, also called typesetters gothic.

Translations

• Dutch: Gotisch (1,2,5,6), gothic (3,4)
• German: gotisch
• Polish: gotycki
• Portuguese: gótico , gótica
• Spanish: gótico , gótica

External links

Gothic or Goth may refer to:

Gothic people

The Goths – a group of East Germanic tribes.

Gothic language

The Gothic language is an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the Goths. It is the Germanic language with the earliest attestation, primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th century copy of a 4th century Bible translation. It is divided into three subgroups: Western Gothic, Eastern Gothic and Crimean Gothic.

Architecture

• Gothic architecture
• International Gothic, a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s
• Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century, in its early, fanciful phase sometimes spelled "Gothick"
• Brick Gothic-a reduced style of Gothic architecture in Northern Europe, especially in the regions around the Baltic Sea without natural rock resources. The resultant style is called Backsteingotik in Germany
• Victorian High Gothic
• Polish Gothic
• Portuguese Late Gothic (Manueline)

Art

• Gothic art, a Medieval art movement

Music

• Gothic rock is a kind of sinister, atmospheric, bizarre form of rock music, sometimes with rather gloomy overtones.

Fiction

• Gothic fiction, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.
• Goth (novel), a Japanese novel, which was adapted into a manga
• Goth (Silverwing Character), a fictional bat from the Silverwing series of novels

Film

• Gothic (film) Ken Russell film.

Nature

• Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
• Gothics, one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York.

Romanticism

• Gothic Lolita - a subset of Lolita fashion, popular in Japan

From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general, with grim overtones:

• Gothic fiction, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.

From its use in Romanticism, the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy:

• Gothic Romanticism
• Southern Gothic The dark and horrific genre of literature based in the Southern USA
• Southern Ontario Gothic
• Gothic double - literary concept

Post-punk subculture

• Goth subculture
  • Gothic rock
  • Goth slang
  • Gothic aesthetics
  • Gothic fashion

Sport

• Gothic F.C., a football club based in Norwich, England

Typefaces

• Another name for sans-serif typefaces
  • Century Gothic
  • Franklin Gothic
  • News Gothic
  • Copperplate Gothic
  • Bank Gothic
  • Benguiat Gothic
• East Asian gothic typeface, a common printing style in East Asian printing
• Blackletter (Gothic script), a script developed in the Middle Ages

Video Game

• Gothic (computer game) developed by Piranha Bytes followed by two sequels Gothic II and Gothic 3.

See also

• Gothenburg (disambiguation)
• Gothicismus
• Sturm und Drang
• Gothika
• Goth Transformation
• American Gothic (disambiguation)
• Gothicmed

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