Definition of gothic
- a. - Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude;
barbarous.
- a. - Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed
arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces,
and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions --
prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust.
of Abacus, and Capital.
- n. - The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that
part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See
Goth.
- n. - A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.
- n. - The style described in Gothic, a., 2.