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Gothic means "related to the Goths."

Gothic or Goth may also refer to:

Germanic persons

• Goths, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes.
  • Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the Goths
  • Crimean Gothic, Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths
  • Gothic alphabet, one of the alphabets used to write the Gothic language

Late Medieval art

In the Late Middle Ages, "Germanic" (as opposed to "Romance")

• Gothic art, a Medieval art movement
  • Gothic architecture
  • Blackletter (Gothic script), a script developed in the Middle Ages

Romanticism

• Gothic fiction (or Gothic Romanticism) a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.

Goth subculture

• Gothic rock, a type of rock music, sometimes with rather gloomy overtones.
• Gothic fashion

Typefaces

• Outside the USA it refers to Blackletter
• In the USA, "Gothic" is another name for sans-serif typefaces
• URW Gothic is a sans-serif typeface

Other

• Gothic metal
• Gothic Lolita
• Gothic (moth), a species of nocturne moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
• Gothic Line, World War II defensive line
• Gothics, one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York.
• Gothic (film), Ken Russell film.
• Gothic F.C., a football club based in Norwich, England
• Gothic (video game) developed by Piranha Bytes followed by two sequels Gothic II and Gothic 3
• SS Gothic (1893), to be found on the list of White Star Line ships
• SS Gothic, a Corinthic-class passenger and cargo liner, used as a royal yacht by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in the 1950s
• New Gothic Art

See also

• Goth (Disambiguation)
• Gothika
• All pages with titles beginning with Gothic
• All pages with titles containing Gothic

• Disambiguation pages