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Gothic Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Gothic? [n] 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 [n] a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries [n] 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 [adj] (literature) characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'" [adj] as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating" [adj] of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations" [adj] of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation" [adj] characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German Synonyms \| Synonyms for Gothic: black letter \| Gothic architecture \| mediaeval \| medieval \| nonmodern \| strange \| unusual Related Terms \| Find terms related to Gothic: animal \| antediluvian \| antiquated \| antique \| archaic \| barbarian \| barbaric \| barbarous \| baroque \| bestial \| bizarre \| bookless \| brain-born \| brutal \| brutish \| classical \| coarse \| crude \| deceived \| dream-built \| extravagant \| fanciful \| fancy-born \| fancy-built \| fancy-woven \| fantasque \| fantastic \| florid \| fossil \| fossilized \| functionally illiterate \| grammarless \| grotesque \| grown old \| heathen \| hoodwinked \| ill-bred \| ill-educated \| illiterate \| impolite \| led astray \| lowbrow \| maggoty \| medieval \| mid-Victorian \| misinformed \| misinstructed \| mistaught \| Neanderthal \| noncivilized \| nonintellectual \| notional \| of other times \| old-world \| outlandish \| pagan \| petrified \| Philistine \| preposterous \| primitive \| rococo \| rough-and-ready \| rude \| savage \| superannuated \| troglodytic \| unbooked \| unbookish \| unbooklearned \| unbriefed \| uncivil \| uncivilized \| uncombed \| uncouth \| uncultivated \| uncultured \| unedified \| uneducated \| unerudite \| unguided \| uninstructed \| unintellectual \| unkempt \| unlearned \| unlettered \| unlicked \| unliterary \| unpolished \| unread \| unrefined \| unscholarly \| unschooled \| unstudious \| untamed \| untaught \| untutored \| Victorian \| whimsical \| wild See Also \| architectural style \| East Germanic \| East Germanic language \| English-Gothic \| English-Gothic architecture \| face \| font \| fount \| perpendicular \| perpendicular style \| style of architecture \| type of architecture \| typeface Gothic In Webster's Dictionary \Goth"ic\, a. [L. Gothicus: cf. F. gothique.] 1. Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous. 2. (Arch.) 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}. \Goth"ic\, n. 1. The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See {Goth}. Note: Bishop Ulfilas or Walfila translated most of the Bible into Gothic about the Middle of the 4th century. The portion of this translaton which is preserved is the oldest known literary document in any Teutonic language. 2. A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines. Note: This is Nonpareil GOTHIC. 3. (Arch.) The style described in {Gothic}, a., 2.

Gothic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gothic?

[n] 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
[n] a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
[n] 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
[adj] (literature) characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"
[adj] as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating"
[adj] of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations"
[adj] of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation"
[adj] characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German

Gothic In Webster's Dictionary

\Goth"ic\, a. [L. Gothicus: cf. F. gothique.]
1. Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude;
   barbarous.

2. (Arch.) 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}.


\Goth"ic\, n.
1. The language of the Goths; especially, the language of
   that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the
   4th century. See {Goth}.

Note: Bishop Ulfilas or Walfila translated most of the Bible
      into Gothic about the Middle of the 4th century. The
      portion of this translaton which is preserved is the
      oldest known literary document in any Teutonic
      language.

2. A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.

Note: This is Nonpareil GOTHIC.

3. (Arch.) The style described in {Gothic}, a., 2.

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