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Goth
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- 1 Relating to goth music or people.
"With her black clothes and dyed hair, Melanie looked very goth compared to her classmates."
- 2 Alternative form of goth. alt-of, alternative
"Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots."
- 1 A surname
- 1 A punk-derived subculture of people who predominantly dress in black, associated with mournful music and attitudes. uncountable
"I think that goth could flower in nerdcore's embrace. I converted Edward Gorey's lettering into a typeface, befriended vampires on LJ and MySpace, even put that spooky echo filter on the bass[…]"
- 2 A member of the East Germanic people known for their invasion of the western Roman Empire and subsequent founding of successor states in Italy and Spain during Late Antiquity. countable, uncountable
- 3 one of the Teutonic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries wordnet
- 4 A style of punk rock influenced by glam rock; gothic rock. uncountable
- 5 An uncivilized person, a barbarian, a vandal. countable, figuratively, uncountable
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- 6 a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement wordnet
- 7 A person who is part of the goth subculture. countable
"And how come you never see goths driving cars? We drive cars... We're just like you really, except that we listen to Cradle of Filth."
- 8 Alternative form of goth (“member of gothic subculture; or the subculture itself”). alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
"For most Mansonites, Goth is only a phase, and their fashion and outlook on life change alongside Marilyn Manson's."
- 9 Rare form of Goth. form-of, rare
"At Madras we arriv’d in the height of confuſion, / A ſcene all occaſion’d by Hyder’s intruſion; / A goth-like invader! who doth us all keep / Penn’d up in a fort, like a ſcar’d flock of ſheep; […]"
Etymology
From gothic rock, first used by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aesthetic similarity to dark and moody 19th century gothic fiction and earlier gothic art and architecture, from Late Latin gothicus (“Gothic, barbaric”), from Ancient Greek Γοτθικός (Gotthikós), from Ancient Greek Γότθοι (Gótthoi, “Goths”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), proposed to derive from unattested Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta).
From gothic rock, first used by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aesthetic similarity to dark and moody 19th century gothic fiction and earlier gothic art and architecture, from Late Latin gothicus (“Gothic, barbaric”), from Ancient Greek Γοτθικός (Gotthikós), from Ancient Greek Γότθοι (Gótthoi, “Goths”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), proposed to derive from unattested Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta).
From Middle English Gothes, Gotes (both plural). In turn partly from Old English Gotan, singular Gota, and partly from Late Latin Gothi. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gutô, perhaps from *geutaną (“to pour”). Compare Old Norse Goti (“Gotlander, Goth”), and related also to Gutnish, Gotland.
From Middle English Gothes, Gotes (both plural). In turn partly from Old English Gotan, singular Gota, and partly from Late Latin Gothi. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gutô, perhaps from *geutaną (“to pour”). Compare Old Norse Goti (“Gotlander, Goth”), and related also to Gutnish, Gotland.
From Middle English Gothes, Gotes (both plural). In turn partly from Old English Gotan, singular Gota, and partly from Late Latin Gothi. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gutô, perhaps from *geutaną (“to pour”). Compare Old Norse Goti (“Gotlander, Goth”), and related also to Gutnish, Gotland.
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