Gothic
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Gothic means of or relating to the Goths and by extension, barbarous, rude, unpolished, belonging to the "Dark Ages", medieval as opposed to classical. It may also refer to the style of fictional writing associated with the Gothic revival, emphasizing violent or macabre events in a mysterious, desolate setting. In England it is also used to refer to a typeface formerly used to print German, also known as black letter. In contemporary times it is used to denote the goth subculture or lifestyle.
Gothic may refer to:
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Germanic people
- Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
- Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the Goths
- Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths
- Gothic alphabet, one of the alphabets used to write the Gothic language
- Gothic (term), a term used to describe things pertaining to the Gothic people
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Medieval culture
- Gothic art, a Medieval art movement
- Gothic architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture (Neo-Gothic)
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Romanticism
- Gothic fiction or Gothic Romanticism, a British literary genre
- Gothic Revival architecture
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Modern culture
- Goth subculture
- Gothic rock, a type of rock music
- Gothic fashion
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Typography
- Blackletter or Gothic script
- Sans-serif or Gothic typefaces
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Other uses
- Gothic (film), a 1986 film by Ken Russell
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