Gothic

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Gothic or Goth may refer to:

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[edit] Gothic people

The Goths – a group of East Germanic tribes.

[edit] Gothic language

The Gothic language is an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the Goths. It is the Germanic language with the earliest attestation, primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th century copy of a 4th century Bible translation. It is divided into three subgroups: Western Gothic, Eastern Gothic and Crimean Gothic.

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  • Gothic rock is a kind of sinister, atmospheric, bizarre form of rock music, sometimes with rather gloomy overtones.

[edit] Fiction

  • Gothic fiction, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.
  • Goth (novel), a Japanese novel, which was adapted into a manga
  • Goth (Silverwing Character), a fictional bat from the Silverwing series of novels

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[edit] Nature

  • Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
  • Gothics, one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York.

[edit] Romanticism

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

  • Gothic fiction, 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:

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[edit] Sport

  • Gothic F.C., a football club based in Norwich, England

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