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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 archesplay

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 centuriesplay

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 Ulfilasplay

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 grotesqueplay

Example:

gothic novels like 'Frankenstein'

Classified under:

Adjectives

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 unenlightenedplay

Example:

a medieval attitude toward dating

Synonyms:

gothic; mediaeval; medieval

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

nonmodern (not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of or relating to the Gothsplay

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 Gothsplay

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 Germanplay

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)

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