Usually means: Dark, mysterious, medieval-inspired artistic style.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word gothic:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gothic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Gothic, gothic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Gothic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Gothic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Gothic, gothic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gothic, gothic: Wordnik
  7. Gothic, gothic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gothic, gothic: Wiktionary
  9. Gothic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Gothic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gothic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gothic: Dictionary.com
  13. gothic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Gothic (Nox Arcana album), Gothic (Paradise Lost album), Gothic (Unicode block), Gothic (architecture), Gothic (disambiguation), Gothic (film), Gothic (moth), Gothic (movie), Gothic (series), Gothic (video game), Gothic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gothic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gothic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Gothic: Rhymezone
  18. Gothic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gothic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. gothic: Free Dictionary
  21. gothic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Gothic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Gothic: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gothic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gothic (architecture), Gothic (disambiguation), Gothic: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stained Glass Windows (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Gothic)

noun:  An extinct Germanic language, once spoken by the Goths.
noun:  Certain moths of the family Noctuidae.
noun:  A particular species of moth of the family Noctuidae, Naenia typica.
adjective:  Of or relating to the Goths or their language.
adjective:  (figuratively) Barbarous, rude, unpolished, belonging to the “Dark Ages”, medieval as opposed to classical.
adjective:  (architecture) Of or relating to the architectural style favored in Western Europe in the 12th to 16th centuries, with high-pointed arches, clustered columns, etc.
adjective:  (literature) Of or relating to the style of fictional writing associated with Gothic fiction, emphasizing violent or macabre events in a mysterious, desolate setting.
adjective:  (typography, England) Synonym of black letter
adjective:  (typography, US) Of a sans serif typeface using straight, even-width lines, also known as grotesque or lineal.
adjective:  Of or relating to the goth subculture, music or lifestyle.
noun:  A novel written in the Gothic style.
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of Gothic [Of or relating to the Goths or their language.]

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