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GOTHIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Gothic; Gothic architecture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Gothic" is a kind of...):
architectural style; style of architecture; type of architecture (architecture as a kind of art form)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Gothic"):
English-Gothic; English-Gothic architecture; perpendicular; perpendicular style (a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
Synonyms:
black letter; Gothic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Gothic" is a kind of...):
case; face; font; fount; typeface (a specific size and style of type within a type family)
Derivation:
Gothic (characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German)
Sense 3
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Gothic" is a kind of...):
East Germanic; East Germanic language (an extinct branch of the Germanic languages)
Derivation:
Gothic (of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
Example:
gothic novels like 'Frankenstein'
Classified under:
Similar:
strange; unusual (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)
Domain category:
literature (creative writing of recognized artistic value)
Sense 2
Meaning:
As if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened
Example:
a medieval attitude toward dating
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
nonmodern (not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or relating to the Goths
Example:
Gothic migrations
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Goth (one of the Teutonic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths
Example:
the Gothic Bible translation
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Gothic (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)
Derivation:
Gothic (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)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Gothic (a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries)
Derivation:
Gothic (a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries)
