Gothic may mean:

As it relates to the Goths (Gothos, Getas), a Germanic tribe:

• Gothic language
• Gothic alphabet

From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman', hence:

• High Medieval northern European art, especially architecture:
  • Gothic art
  • Gothic architecture
  • International Gothic, a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s
  • Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century
  • Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
• Gothic script: another name for Blackletter, a script developed in the Middle Ages

From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general (synonymously with Teutonic), with grim overtones:

• Gothic novel, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later

From its use in Romanticism, the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy:

• Gothic horror
• Gothic or Goth subculture
• Gothic rock
• Gothic metal
• Gothic fashion
• Gothic (computer game), a roleplaying computer game
• Gothic (movie), a 1986 film by Ken Russell
• Gothic (album), a 1992 album by the heavy metal band Paradise Lost

More recent uses:

• Another name for sans-serif typefaces
• Japanese gothic typeface, a common printing style in Japanese printing
• Gothic Chess, a chess variant

See also

• Gothicismus
• Germanic

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