Gothic
8
9.0
- adjective
- /ˈɡɑːθɪk/
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- A newfound interest in Gothic art and architecture was also registered by Raymond Duchamp-Villon.
Examples
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Fighting back tears, I turned into the courtyard of an old Gothic church, lost in my thoughts and reflections.
Fiction book (2001) -
First, most locales with the resources to build and maintain a large Gothic cathedral had one.
Academic text (1993) -
I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.
Academic text (2011) -
Drummond University Medical Center was a Gothic structure: grey stone and gargoyles.
Fiction book (1991) -
"The architecture is what we call Eastlake and Gothic revival," Lester was telling us.
Fiction book (1996) -
In this sense, Walpole's construction of Strawberry Hill as a "court" of Gothic taste was apt.
Academic text (2013) -
I crossed the snow-packed circular drive to the Gothic portico that was the entrance to Tower Court.
Fiction book (1993) -
As a whole, Saint-Eustache is a church with a skeleton of the Gothic type, overlaid with Renaissance adornment.
Academic text (1998) -
Ahead stretched a small quad, complete with a three-story Gothic bell tower sheathed in ivy.
Fiction book (1999) -
The gray stone chapel reflects the beauty of 13th-century Gothic architecture with its soaring arches.
Compounds
- Literature
1
9.3
Stories or novels with dark, mysterious settings and frightening events
1
6.8
A European church and cathedral style with tall pointed arches and flying buttresses
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8.1
A style of building that copies medieval Gothic churches, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries
- Specialized
A style of church and cathedral building from 14th–15th century England with tall lines, Tudor arches, and fan-shaped stone ceilings
- Specialized
A style of English church design from the 1300s and 1400s with tall lines, Tudor arches, and fan vaults
- Specialized
An old East Germanic language once spoken by the Goths and known from a fourth-century Bible translation
A style of building design that copies medieval Gothic features like pointed arches and decorative stonework
A building style from the 1800s that copies old Gothic churches with pointed arches and tall towers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gothic comes from the name of the ancient people called the Goths, an old German group, so it means 'of or relating to the Goths'.