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Gothic

/ Gothic /
noun/adjective satellite

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
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
Type of:
architectural style style of architecture type of architecture
Kinds of:
perpendicular perpendicular style English-Gothic English-Gothic architecture
noun Sense 2
a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
Type of:
font fount typeface
noun Sense 3
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
Type of:
East Germanic East Germanic language
adjective satellite Sense 4
characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
"gothic novels like `Frankenstein''"
Similar:
strange unusual
Domain:
literature
adjective Sense 5
of or relating to the Goths
"Gothic migrations"
Pertains to:
Goth
adjective Sense 6
of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths
"the Gothic Bible translation"
adjective Sense 7
characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German
Pertains to:
black letter
adjective satellite Sense 8
as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened
"a medieval attitude toward dating"
Similar:
nonmodern
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
8
Total Synonyms
3
Total Relationships
15
Times Searched
4
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architectural style style of architecture type of architecture perpendicular perpendicular style English-Gothic English-Gothic architecture font fount typeface East Germanic East Germanic language