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nouna 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
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adjectiveas if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened
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nouna heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
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"gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"adjectivecharacterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
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nounextinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilastype of:
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characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German
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of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths
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of or relating to the Goths
Definition that contains gothic
- dracula fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker
- frankenstein the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses
- frankenstein the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation)
- cusp point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch)
- perpendicular a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
- lancet an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance
- romanesque a style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD; characterized by round arches and vaults and by the substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and arcades
- chartres a town in northern France that is noted for its Gothic Cathedral
- wulfila a Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382)
- bishop ulfilas a Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382)