GOTHICS - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Meaning 1

Part of speech: Adjective (satellite)

as if belonging to the Middle Ages

Example: old-fashioned and unenlightened; a medieval attitude toward dating

Meaning 2

Part of speech: Adjective

of or relating to the Goths

Example: Gothic migrations

Meaning 3

Part of speech: Adjective

of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths

Example: the Gothic Bible translation

Meaning 4

Part of speech: Adjective

characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German

Meaning 5

Part of speech: Adjective (satellite)

characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque

Example: gothic novels like `Frankenstein

Meaning 6

Part of speech: Noun

a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries

Example: characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches

Meaning 7

Part of speech: Noun

a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries

Meaning 8

Part of speech: Noun

extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths

Example: the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas