1. gothic - Noun
2. gothic - Adjective
3. gothic - Adjective Satellite
4. Gothic - Proper noun
Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.
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.
The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.
A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.
The style described in Gothic, a., 2.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOpera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. Kenneth Clark
The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style. Camille Paglia
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. Marshall McLuhan
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. Goldwin Smith
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. John McGahern