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Besides its original meaning, "of or relating to the Goths (Gothos, Getas), a Germanic tribe" & so a Gothic language and the Gothic alphabet, the word Gothic has been utilized to refer to distinctly different items:
From the Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed a opposite of classical or Roman, hence:
High Medieval northern European art, especially architecture, see Gothic art, Gothic architecture, International Gothic
A 18th century Gothic revival sought to revive High Medieval Gothic architecture.
The Gothic (Naenia typica) is a metal money of noctuid moth, named when its system evocative of Gothic architecture.
A second title for Blackletter, a script developed in the Middle Ages.
from either a 18th century, a word come to mean Germanic in general (synonymously with Teutonic), with grim overtones e.g. from either a direct contrast of Germanic mythology with classical Greek mythology.
the British literary genre from either the late Eighteenth & early 19th century, using a Victorian revival a hundred years late: understand Gothic novel.
From either its apply around Romanticism, the word in the 20th century come to refer to anything dark or even gloomy.
the certain life-style (understand Goth), music (see Gothic rock), and fashion (look at Gothic fashion).
The roleplaying video game: Gothic (computer game)
Gothic, a 1986 film by Ken Russell.
Gothic, an album released by the heavy metal/goth metal band Paradise Lost in 1992.
more recent utilizes:
A second title for sans-serif typefaces.
Japanese Gothic typeface is a common printing style inside Japanese printing.
The chess variant: Gothic Chess.
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