Goth
[ɡɔθ]
Definition
(noun.) one of the Teutonic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries.
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Definition
(n.) One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.
(n.) One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person.
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Definition
n. one of an ancient Teutonic nation originally settled on the southern coasts of the Baltic which migrated to Dacia in the 3d century and later founded kingdoms in Italy southern France and Spain: a rude or uncivilised person a barbarian.—adj. Goth′ic belonging to the Goths or their language: barbarous: romantic: denoting a style of architecture with high-pointed arches clustered columns &c. (applied in reproach at the time of the Renaissance).—v.t. Goth′icise to make Gothic: to bring back to barbarism.—n. Goth′icism a Gothic idiom or style of building: rudeness of manners.
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Examples
- In 493 Theodoric, a Goth, became King of Rome, but already for seventeen years there had been no Roman emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I think I shall turn round on you and accuse you of being a Goth, said Rosamond, looking at Lydgate with a smile. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Alaric and Goth marched down Italy, and after a short siege captured Rome (410). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are sad Goths in Art, Mr. Hartright. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In 321 A.D. the Goths were again over the Danube, plundering what is now Serbia and Bulgaria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When Totila retook Naples from the Greeks, the Goths protected the women from insult and treated even the captured soldiers with humanity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They had long subjugated the Alani, and now they made the Ostrogoths, the east Goths, tributary. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A much more serious push southward was that of the Goths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- West of the Huns, beyond the Don, there were Aryan tribes, the Goths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Already we have noted (chap, xxix, name of Goths from the Baltic to the Black Sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Fresh Vandals, more Goths, Alans, Suevi, marched freely westward, living upon the country. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were Huns in possession of Pannonia and Goths in Dalmatia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have already noted the presence of these people in South Russia, and their division by the Dnieper into Western and Eastern Goths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As we have told, he reconquered the African province from the Vandals and most of Italy from the Goths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These Goths had spread south-eastward from their region of origin in Scandinavia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Visigoths (or West Goths) followed the example of the Vandals, and made arrangements to cross the Danube into Roman territory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Vandal kingdom was recovered in 534; the Goths were expelled from Italy in 553. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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