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Definition of Gothic in English: Gothicadjective ˈɡɒθɪkˈɡɑθɪk 1Relating to the Goths or their extinct language, which belongs to the East Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. It provides the earliest manuscript evidence of any Germanic language (4th–6th centuries AD). Example sentencesExamples - The Germans consolidated in the Po Valley, along the so-called Gothic line, and fought a hard battle through the autumn and winter months.
- Not until 562 did he finally take Brixia and Verona from the Goths and inflict a crushing defeat on the combined Frankish and Gothic armies.
- With the extinction of the Ostrogothic language, the longest-surviving Gothic people finally disappeared from history.
- With the seat of power removed to the east, the Italian peninsula was left largely unguarded as the Gothic hordes swept west from their homelands at the periphery of the Black Sea.
- The Swedes are descended from the Gothic tribes that moved into Sweden following the melting glaciers, probably during the Neolithic period.
- Protected in Rome by his patrons, he left the city at the time of the Gothic sack in AD 410, taking brief refuge in Africa and seeing his supporter Cælestius condemned at the Council of Carthage in 411.
- During the sixth century, in the period between the Gothic war and the consolidation of the Lombard kingdom under king Agilulf, there were repeated Frankish interventions in Italy.
- He translated the Bible from Greek into the Gothic language.
2Of or in the style of architecture prevalent in western Europe in the 12th–16th centuries (and revived in the mid 18th to early 20th centuries), characterized by pointed arches, rib vaults, and flying buttresses, together with large windows and elaborate tracery. English Gothic architecture is divided into Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular. Example sentencesExamples - The ornate Gothic church directly across from her home provided a dramatic backdrop as the summer sun went down.
- Nor were these all soaring, vertical lancets that ended, Gothic style, in pointed arches.
- The Jerusalem YMCA is a combination of Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic, and neo-Moorish architecture.
- The home's two brick and stone chimneys were based on existing French Country and Gothic designs.
- Whether writing about Gothic churches or peasant shrines, Chateaubriand managed to convey a sense of awe and respect which he placed at the centre of religious experience.
- Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results.
- Edinburgh's graceful Gothic buildings, famed Fringe Festival and history-drenched Royal Mile provide plenty of options to the visitor.
- The vast master bedroom - two bedrooms knocked into one - has a row of decorative Gothic sash windows overlooking the garden as well as an en suite and separate toilet.
- However, Barron's largely uncritical appropriation of Gothic architecture for the 21st century troubles me.
- Ramsey reminds us of the increased importance and status of named architects at this time, a process initiated during the earlier periods of Gothic architecture.
- Barron surveys a number of French Gothic churches and includes a number of illustrations.
- The parliament is a Greek temple, the city hall, a Flemish Gothic guildhall.
- The Gothic arches of the college provide the inspiration - the canteen, the hostel steps, the ‘woods’ - all colouring the memories of the rebel years.
- About 1120 arches began to be made pointed, and from this grew the style known as Early English, the first phase of Gothic architecture in England.
- A wine like this often reminds me of a Gothic cathedral with flying buttresses.
- Like the soaring vaults of Gothic cathedrals, the Eiffel Tower is a uniquely French symbol of invention and aspiration.
- Barry was a master of planning, organisation and dealing with bothersome committees and he had designed some Gothic buildings, but he was not at heart a Goth.
- The result incorporates a visible seismic infrastructure with shapes that reflect the traditional Gothic tracery.
- Built between 1160 and 1289, Saint Peter's cathedral is a combination of Romanesque, Gothic and neo-classical styles.
- The relationship between Gothic ornament and literature can be quite striking.
3Belonging to or redolent of the Dark Ages; portentously gloomy or horrifying. 19th-century Gothic horror Example sentencesExamples - The Castle of Otranto was an early example of the Gothick horror novel and Historic Doubts on Richard III fathered a minor academic industry.
- Although William Beckford wrote a Gothick romance as reckless and immoderate as himself, his life of epic prodigality would arrest attention had he not written a single line.
- Although both narrators are prone to purple passages, the texture of Singer's Gothic prose remains one of the novel's strengths.
- Functioning as both a commentary and counterpoint to the center text, excerpts from the Gothic short stories of Edgar Allan Poe run along the left side of the page.
- Thompson addresses the variations Poe creates with the Gothic tale by structuring a conflict between reason and irrationality.
- If the landscape, as Louis Gross argued in his book on Gothic fiction, was the locus of terror in much American fiction, the landscape has become less threatening in this century.
- The arts of prose fiction were extended by Scott's historical novels, by the sensational effects of Gothic fiction, and by the emergence of the short story form in the Edinburgh and London magazines.
- The style of the film is very Tim Burton, with its Gothic humour and distorted architecture.
- The film was of the ‘art house’ variety, a dark tale set in a Gothic atmosphere with a family being slowly torn apart.
- She had turned away from Gothic literature and started writing about what she knew, inventing a new genre.
- Du Maurier's novel is a lusty tale of pirates on the Cornish coast, with plenty of Gothic atmosphere, and opportunities for grand set pieces - including two shipwrecks.
- And these story lines provided a chance to break from the Gothic tone of previous seasons.
- Do not expect to like it if you do not like science fiction or Victorian literature set in London or Gothic horror.
- And so too may Campion in her portrayal, which effectively returns Isabel to the realm of Gothic romance.
- The critical fortunes of Gothic writing since Walpole's time have swung intermittently between derision of its hoary clichés and enthusiasm for its atmospheric, psychologically suggestive power.
- In My Antonia, memory is Gothic in both of these senses: it occurs across unstable boundaries and in a dubious and ambivalent relationship to domesticity.
- Indeed, the pattern has been revisited and reworked by countless Gothic stylists since Poe.
- It's not a genre like, say, science fiction or Gothic horror or romance.
- And yet Kyoka's delicate, visual language suspends the Gothic violence over moments of horrible beauty.
- Even members of your own family cast a Gothic shadow.
4(of lettering) of or derived from the angular style of handwriting with broad vertical downstrokes used in western Europe from the 13th century, including Fraktur and black-letter typefaces. Example sentencesExamples - The presence of Gothic motifs in the typography of 16th-century illustrated books and even in church architecture is not construed as a paralyzed attachment to tradition.
- Mutu is the David Beckham of his country: a fashion icon who married a TV star, he displays a tattoo of his son's name, Mario, in Gothic letters along the base of his back, and wears boots with Mario embroidered on them.
- On the other side was printed only the initials NB, in a kind of Gothic script.
- The part of the menu dealing with the sausages, by the way, was illustrated with a saying in German in Gothic script: ‘Everything has an end, only the sausage has two’.
- It comes in two different typographic styles, Gothic typeface and graffiti style, both of which are popular in hip-hop on an international scale.
- With deep concentration, I carefully formed the Gothic script.
- Each page is covered in a translucent layer of white acrylic and mica that partially obscures the text, which is printed in an old-fashioned Gothic font.
- In 1934 the Monotype Corporation had won an international competition to provide new sets of Gothic type for every German government department, and had kept a set of them.
- I examined the videotape, looking at the bright stickers that marked it as the store's, as well as the title of the movie, proclaimed boldly in Gothic script on its front.
- Again, one felt the force of Sigmund Freud's personality as he parades his Analysis of the Ego in bold Gothic script across the pages.
- The pages are blank save for a sinister woodcut of a dragon and a single word in Gothic type: Drakulya.
- Written in magniloquently Gothic letters of gold leaf, the composer's name on the portrait above his left shoulder recalls the style of the escutcheons of the knights of the Golden Fleece.
- In Europe, the Gothic script of some manuscripts and of early printing (Gutenberg's, for example) enjoys a similar life as pattern alone.
- With his initials in Gothic script on either side, the artist's head is topped by a snake that doubles as a wisp of hair.
- The quotations are printed in the Fraktur Gothic typeface favored by the Hitler regime, and beneath the citations Haacke has placed a row of garbage cans, each fitted with a speaker playing the sounds of marching troops.
- It was launched with the 1921 vintage in 1927 as a more accessible product than the host of German bottles adorned with Gothic script and long, complicated names.
- A band of gilded silver inscribed with Gothic lettering that reads BRACHIUM S. PHILIPPI encircles the wrist of the arm relic.
- Underneath it were the words ‘Animal Martyr’ emblazoned in a flowing, Gothic script.
5Relating to goths or goth music. Example sentencesExamples - As the closest thing we have to a gothic masterpiece, it is unfortunate that there is not much in the way of additional features on the disc.
- Huge gothic, almost science fiction based soundscapes shroud their set.
- On an unrelated note, one night, me and crew went to a goth bar down in Ybor and got all gothic.
- The Finnish band H.I.M. is the most famous representative of contemporary Gothic rock.
- There was Bishop and he had his lips locked on some gothic girl standing behind a countertop.
- I kind of thought it sounded gothic or it had some kind of black metal connotation to it.
- The gothic culture leads young, susceptible minds into an imagined world of evil, darkness, and violence.
- If Elbow had been into the dark and gothic side of the eighties then this could be them now.
- I admit, she was a little strange - she wore gothic clothes and make up, but I thought that that was kind of sexy.
- There in the back corner were three gothic looking people facing each other and talking.
- If shivers down your spine are what you're after, this is prog gothic ethnoforgery electronica at its finest.
- For example, I have loud and quiet tapes, industrial and gothic tapes and even some bad 80's tapes.
- Lally seemingly has created his own subgenre of gothic cowboy punk with these tracks.
- There's an almost gothic, guitarless noisiness which recalls early Young Gods.
- Sabriel commented and the gothic boy gave her an evil glare as they all walked back to their seats.
- It's not surprising after all that First Half Second are as gothic and as morbid as a Transylvanian cemetery.
- In the center room, there was a gothic looking girl sitting at an old wooden desk.
- It's a big tune, a dark gothic crash of beats, robotic chanting and twisted 303.
- Ashlee, in the process of becoming a woman, wants to be gothic and a rebel.
- What do Rugby league, gothic music, mouldy posters and blogging have in common?
Synonyms ornate, exotic, imaginative, creative, fancy
noun ˈɡɒθɪkˈɡɑθɪk mass noun1The extinct language of the Goths. Example sentencesExamples - Especially interesting is the Crimean Gothic word for ‘egg’.
- Goths had their own Arian churches (as can still be seen in Ravenna), and surviving documents written by clerics show that Gothic was spoken there.
2The Gothic style of architecture. Example sentencesExamples - The central arch at Ajmer is straighter - Tudor Gothic - and the side arches are multifoil and cusped, a common feature in other Islamic work outside India.
- The most important and original monument of Estonian Gothic is the old town of Tallinn itself, which is listed as a World Heritage site.
- Suburban Gothic is the style of the moment on the UpsideClown.
- Here, I stood face-to-face with magnificent structures in 17 architectural styles, including Gothic, renaissance and classical.
- From the 1840s it was the norm for the Anglo-Indian church builder to follow the precedent set by the revivers of the many permutations of Gothic in England.
- Baxandall's term is adapted from the style terminology for late Gothic, relating the sculpture to broader traditions of taste and craft.
- Australian Gothic is generously illustrated with full-page colour illustrations and black and white photographs and drawings that are carefully related to the text.
- Caroline Bruzelius brings similar considerations of nationality to bear on her study of French Gothic in Central and Southern Italy in the thirteenth century.
- The hill has been built upon since the 10th century, and almost every style of architecture is represented upon it, from Romanesque to Gothic to Renaissance to Baroque.
- The combination of styles - Gothic, Renaissance, Classical, Modern, and Baroque - makes the old city center especially attractive.
- And those blokes who might have invented Gothic, the Moors?
- The buildings, with their revival styles - Tudor, Spanish, Mediterranean, and Gothic - were the first to bring apartment-style living to our cities.
- She also gave an account of the Russian architecture - Baroque, Gothic, Art Nouveau.
- Architecturally, three styles were merged for the construction of the building - Gothic, Ionic and Corinthian.
- It's a confusingly grand mixture of styles from Gothic to Gaudi.
- No architect has ever completely summarized the Gothic any more than been completely Modern; historians have made these points time and again.
- The Arts Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand is an example of 19th-century Gothic.
- After much discussion, we looked at different door styles from different architectural styles such as Gothic, Art Deco, Colonial and Modern.
- The largest and most complex of Byrne's commissions, this commission reflected the nation-wide interest in Gothic, but in a novel, contemporary iteration.
- Here you will find Gothic, Baroque, Neo-Classical and Art Nouveau nestling among Sixties and Seventies monstrosities.
3Gothic type. Example sentencesExamples - It is also written in the new humanist script: this replaced medieval Gothic script and, in its rejection of Gothic's abbreviations and fusion of letters, made text more accessible.
- ‘Erich’ became ‘Eric’ and he now wrote in Latin characters instead of Gothic.
Derivatives adverb ˈɡɒθɪkliˈɡɑθək(ə)li The golden ceiling arched Gothically towards the heavens. Example sentencesExamples - A reddish light shone out from Gothically arched windows above, illuminating the alley with a scarlet tinge.
- Pascal Humbert and Jean-Yves Tola spend most of their time as two-thirds of the Gothically charged, alt-country, Denver based band 16 Horsepower.
noun ˈɡɒθɪsɪz(ə)mˈɡɑθəˌsɪzəm Baudelaire was after content-not verse form; Gothicism, not lyricism. Example sentencesExamples - Accordingly, as with the ludicrous fake Gothicism of the title, it proved a classic case of Nicholas Hentz's just missing the boat, with the author mercifully consigned to obscurity.
- I guess this time around the half-assed attempts at electronicism beat out the half-assed attempts at Gothicism, but not by a whole lot, and I wouldn't go so far as to say I like Smith's intentions here.
- The nearest linear example to the style employed by lead singer/songwriter Colin Meloy is the literary Gothicism typified by Victorian authors such as Charles Dickens and the Bronte sisters.
- While he does so in witty rhetorical play, there is a strong argument for the Gothicism inherent in this act, as has been mentioned.
verb ˈɡɒθɪsʌɪzˈɡɑθəˌsaɪz [with object]Make Gothic in style or character. he purchased a villa and proceeded to Gothicize it Example sentencesExamples - the novel Gothicizes the various documents that Jane encounters
- A few years earlier he had submitted a similar design for the new Foreign Office in Whitehall, only to have it vetoed by Palmerston on the grounds that Scott would ‘Gothicize the whole country’ if given his head.
- In 1747 he purchased a villa at Twickenham, Strawberry Hill, and proceeded to Gothicize it using a combination of accurate research and his own Rococo whimsy.
- This honour falls to Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Oxford, who bought a former coachman's cottage at Strawberry Hill and gradually Gothicised it between 1753 and 1776.
Origin From French gothique or late Latin gothicus, from Gothi (see Goth). It was used in the 17th and 18th cents to mean 'not classical' (i.e. not Greek or Roman), and hence to refer to medieval architecture which did not follow classical models (Gothic (sense 2 of the adjective)) and a typeface based on medieval handwriting (Gothic (sense 4 of the adjective)). Definition of Gothic in US English: GothicadjectiveˈɡɑθɪkˈɡäTHik 1Relating to the Goths or their extinct East Germanic language, which provides the earliest manuscript evidence of any Germanic language (4th–6th centuries AD). Example sentencesExamples - With the seat of power removed to the east, the Italian peninsula was left largely unguarded as the Gothic hordes swept west from their homelands at the periphery of the Black Sea.
- The Germans consolidated in the Po Valley, along the so-called Gothic line, and fought a hard battle through the autumn and winter months.
- The Swedes are descended from the Gothic tribes that moved into Sweden following the melting glaciers, probably during the Neolithic period.
- Protected in Rome by his patrons, he left the city at the time of the Gothic sack in AD 410, taking brief refuge in Africa and seeing his supporter Cælestius condemned at the Council of Carthage in 411.
- Not until 562 did he finally take Brixia and Verona from the Goths and inflict a crushing defeat on the combined Frankish and Gothic armies.
- He translated the Bible from Greek into the Gothic language.
- With the extinction of the Ostrogothic language, the longest-surviving Gothic people finally disappeared from history.
- During the sixth century, in the period between the Gothic war and the consolidation of the Lombard kingdom under king Agilulf, there were repeated Frankish interventions in Italy.
2Of or in the style of architecture prevalent in western Europe in the 12th–16th centuries, characterized by pointed arches, rib vaults, and flying buttresses, together with large windows and elaborate tracery. Example sentencesExamples - Nor were these all soaring, vertical lancets that ended, Gothic style, in pointed arches.
- The home's two brick and stone chimneys were based on existing French Country and Gothic designs.
- Built between 1160 and 1289, Saint Peter's cathedral is a combination of Romanesque, Gothic and neo-classical styles.
- Whether writing about Gothic churches or peasant shrines, Chateaubriand managed to convey a sense of awe and respect which he placed at the centre of religious experience.
- However, Barron's largely uncritical appropriation of Gothic architecture for the 21st century troubles me.
- Barron surveys a number of French Gothic churches and includes a number of illustrations.
- The ornate Gothic church directly across from her home provided a dramatic backdrop as the summer sun went down.
- The Jerusalem YMCA is a combination of Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic, and neo-Moorish architecture.
- Like the soaring vaults of Gothic cathedrals, the Eiffel Tower is a uniquely French symbol of invention and aspiration.
- Edinburgh's graceful Gothic buildings, famed Fringe Festival and history-drenched Royal Mile provide plenty of options to the visitor.
- The Gothic arches of the college provide the inspiration - the canteen, the hostel steps, the ‘woods’ - all colouring the memories of the rebel years.
- Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results.
- The relationship between Gothic ornament and literature can be quite striking.
- The vast master bedroom - two bedrooms knocked into one - has a row of decorative Gothic sash windows overlooking the garden as well as an en suite and separate toilet.
- Barry was a master of planning, organisation and dealing with bothersome committees and he had designed some Gothic buildings, but he was not at heart a Goth.
- About 1120 arches began to be made pointed, and from this grew the style known as Early English, the first phase of Gothic architecture in England.
- The result incorporates a visible seismic infrastructure with shapes that reflect the traditional Gothic tracery.
- A wine like this often reminds me of a Gothic cathedral with flying buttresses.
- Ramsey reminds us of the increased importance and status of named architects at this time, a process initiated during the earlier periods of Gothic architecture.
- The parliament is a Greek temple, the city hall, a Flemish Gothic guildhall.
3Belonging to or redolent of the Dark Ages; portentously gloomy or horrifying. 19th-century Gothic horror Example sentencesExamples - Thompson addresses the variations Poe creates with the Gothic tale by structuring a conflict between reason and irrationality.
- And yet Kyoka's delicate, visual language suspends the Gothic violence over moments of horrible beauty.
- The arts of prose fiction were extended by Scott's historical novels, by the sensational effects of Gothic fiction, and by the emergence of the short story form in the Edinburgh and London magazines.
- She had turned away from Gothic literature and started writing about what she knew, inventing a new genre.
- The style of the film is very Tim Burton, with its Gothic humour and distorted architecture.
- Although both narrators are prone to purple passages, the texture of Singer's Gothic prose remains one of the novel's strengths.
- Du Maurier's novel is a lusty tale of pirates on the Cornish coast, with plenty of Gothic atmosphere, and opportunities for grand set pieces - including two shipwrecks.
- Even members of your own family cast a Gothic shadow.
- Indeed, the pattern has been revisited and reworked by countless Gothic stylists since Poe.
- If the landscape, as Louis Gross argued in his book on Gothic fiction, was the locus of terror in much American fiction, the landscape has become less threatening in this century.
- The critical fortunes of Gothic writing since Walpole's time have swung intermittently between derision of its hoary clichés and enthusiasm for its atmospheric, psychologically suggestive power.
- And these story lines provided a chance to break from the Gothic tone of previous seasons.
- It's not a genre like, say, science fiction or Gothic horror or romance.
- And so too may Campion in her portrayal, which effectively returns Isabel to the realm of Gothic romance.
- In My Antonia, memory is Gothic in both of these senses: it occurs across unstable boundaries and in a dubious and ambivalent relationship to domesticity.
- Functioning as both a commentary and counterpoint to the center text, excerpts from the Gothic short stories of Edgar Allan Poe run along the left side of the page.
- Although William Beckford wrote a Gothick romance as reckless and immoderate as himself, his life of epic prodigality would arrest attention had he not written a single line.
- The Castle of Otranto was an early example of the Gothick horror novel and Historic Doubts on Richard III fathered a minor academic industry.
- Do not expect to like it if you do not like science fiction or Victorian literature set in London or Gothic horror.
- The film was of the ‘art house’ variety, a dark tale set in a Gothic atmosphere with a family being slowly torn apart.
4(of lettering) of or derived from the angular style of handwriting with broad vertical downstrokes used in western Europe from the 13th century, including Fraktur and black-letter typefaces. Example sentencesExamples - Each page is covered in a translucent layer of white acrylic and mica that partially obscures the text, which is printed in an old-fashioned Gothic font.
- Written in magniloquently Gothic letters of gold leaf, the composer's name on the portrait above his left shoulder recalls the style of the escutcheons of the knights of the Golden Fleece.
- The part of the menu dealing with the sausages, by the way, was illustrated with a saying in German in Gothic script: ‘Everything has an end, only the sausage has two’.
- In 1934 the Monotype Corporation had won an international competition to provide new sets of Gothic type for every German government department, and had kept a set of them.
- Underneath it were the words ‘Animal Martyr’ emblazoned in a flowing, Gothic script.
- The quotations are printed in the Fraktur Gothic typeface favored by the Hitler regime, and beneath the citations Haacke has placed a row of garbage cans, each fitted with a speaker playing the sounds of marching troops.
- I examined the videotape, looking at the bright stickers that marked it as the store's, as well as the title of the movie, proclaimed boldly in Gothic script on its front.
- It was launched with the 1921 vintage in 1927 as a more accessible product than the host of German bottles adorned with Gothic script and long, complicated names.
- In Europe, the Gothic script of some manuscripts and of early printing (Gutenberg's, for example) enjoys a similar life as pattern alone.
- The pages are blank save for a sinister woodcut of a dragon and a single word in Gothic type: Drakulya.
- It comes in two different typographic styles, Gothic typeface and graffiti style, both of which are popular in hip-hop on an international scale.
- With deep concentration, I carefully formed the Gothic script.
- On the other side was printed only the initials NB, in a kind of Gothic script.
- Mutu is the David Beckham of his country: a fashion icon who married a TV star, he displays a tattoo of his son's name, Mario, in Gothic letters along the base of his back, and wears boots with Mario embroidered on them.
- The presence of Gothic motifs in the typography of 16th-century illustrated books and even in church architecture is not construed as a paralyzed attachment to tradition.
- With his initials in Gothic script on either side, the artist's head is topped by a snake that doubles as a wisp of hair.
- A band of gilded silver inscribed with Gothic lettering that reads BRACHIUM S. PHILIPPI encircles the wrist of the arm relic.
- Again, one felt the force of Sigmund Freud's personality as he parades his Analysis of the Ego in bold Gothic script across the pages.
5Relating to goths or their rock music. Example sentencesExamples - There in the back corner were three gothic looking people facing each other and talking.
- It's a big tune, a dark gothic crash of beats, robotic chanting and twisted 303.
- There's an almost gothic, guitarless noisiness which recalls early Young Gods.
- Lally seemingly has created his own subgenre of gothic cowboy punk with these tracks.
- Sabriel commented and the gothic boy gave her an evil glare as they all walked back to their seats.
- If Elbow had been into the dark and gothic side of the eighties then this could be them now.
- The gothic culture leads young, susceptible minds into an imagined world of evil, darkness, and violence.
- What do Rugby league, gothic music, mouldy posters and blogging have in common?
- The Finnish band H.I.M. is the most famous representative of contemporary Gothic rock.
- There was Bishop and he had his lips locked on some gothic girl standing behind a countertop.
- On an unrelated note, one night, me and crew went to a goth bar down in Ybor and got all gothic.
- Huge gothic, almost science fiction based soundscapes shroud their set.
- If shivers down your spine are what you're after, this is prog gothic ethnoforgery electronica at its finest.
- It's not surprising after all that First Half Second are as gothic and as morbid as a Transylvanian cemetery.
- Ashlee, in the process of becoming a woman, wants to be gothic and a rebel.
- For example, I have loud and quiet tapes, industrial and gothic tapes and even some bad 80's tapes.
- In the center room, there was a gothic looking girl sitting at an old wooden desk.
- I admit, she was a little strange - she wore gothic clothes and make up, but I thought that that was kind of sexy.
- As the closest thing we have to a gothic masterpiece, it is unfortunate that there is not much in the way of additional features on the disc.
- I kind of thought it sounded gothic or it had some kind of black metal connotation to it.
Synonyms ornate, exotic, imaginative, creative, fancy
nounˈɡɑθɪkˈɡäTHik 1The language of the Goths. Example sentencesExamples - Goths had their own Arian churches (as can still be seen in Ravenna), and surviving documents written by clerics show that Gothic was spoken there.
- Especially interesting is the Crimean Gothic word for ‘egg’.
2The Gothic style of architecture. Example sentencesExamples - The combination of styles - Gothic, Renaissance, Classical, Modern, and Baroque - makes the old city center especially attractive.
- Suburban Gothic is the style of the moment on the UpsideClown.
- The Arts Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand is an example of 19th-century Gothic.
- Australian Gothic is generously illustrated with full-page colour illustrations and black and white photographs and drawings that are carefully related to the text.
- And those blokes who might have invented Gothic, the Moors?
- No architect has ever completely summarized the Gothic any more than been completely Modern; historians have made these points time and again.
- Architecturally, three styles were merged for the construction of the building - Gothic, Ionic and Corinthian.
- The largest and most complex of Byrne's commissions, this commission reflected the nation-wide interest in Gothic, but in a novel, contemporary iteration.
- The most important and original monument of Estonian Gothic is the old town of Tallinn itself, which is listed as a World Heritage site.
- The hill has been built upon since the 10th century, and almost every style of architecture is represented upon it, from Romanesque to Gothic to Renaissance to Baroque.
- She also gave an account of the Russian architecture - Baroque, Gothic, Art Nouveau.
- After much discussion, we looked at different door styles from different architectural styles such as Gothic, Art Deco, Colonial and Modern.
- Baxandall's term is adapted from the style terminology for late Gothic, relating the sculpture to broader traditions of taste and craft.
- The central arch at Ajmer is straighter - Tudor Gothic - and the side arches are multifoil and cusped, a common feature in other Islamic work outside India.
- Caroline Bruzelius brings similar considerations of nationality to bear on her study of French Gothic in Central and Southern Italy in the thirteenth century.
- From the 1840s it was the norm for the Anglo-Indian church builder to follow the precedent set by the revivers of the many permutations of Gothic in England.
- Here you will find Gothic, Baroque, Neo-Classical and Art Nouveau nestling among Sixties and Seventies monstrosities.
- The buildings, with their revival styles - Tudor, Spanish, Mediterranean, and Gothic - were the first to bring apartment-style living to our cities.
- Here, I stood face-to-face with magnificent structures in 17 architectural styles, including Gothic, renaissance and classical.
- It's a confusingly grand mixture of styles from Gothic to Gaudi.
3Gothic type. Example sentencesExamples - It is also written in the new humanist script: this replaced medieval Gothic script and, in its rejection of Gothic's abbreviations and fusion of letters, made text more accessible.
- ‘Erich’ became ‘Eric’ and he now wrote in Latin characters instead of Gothic.
Origin From French gothique or late Latin gothicus, from Gothi (see Goth). It was used in the 17th and 18th centuries to mean ‘not classical’ (i.e. not Greek or Roman), and hence to refer to medieval architecture which did not follow classical models ( Gothic (sense 2 of the adjective)) and a typeface based on medieval handwriting ( Gothic (sense 4 of the adjective)). |