Gothic Definition

1. Belonging or relating to the Goths or their language.
2. Belonging or relating to a style of architecture featuring high pointed arches, popular in Europe between the 12c and 16c.
3. Belonging or relating to a type of literature dealing with mysterious or supernatural events in an eerie setting, popular in the 18c.
4. Belonging or relating to a modern style of literature, films, etc which imitates this.

Form: gothick (also)
5. printing.
Relating to various styles of heavy type with elaborate angular features.

1. Gothic architecture or literature.
2. Gothic lettering.
3. The extinct Germanic language of the Goths.