Ostrogoth
['ɔstrəuɡɔθ]
Definition
(noun.) a member of the eastern group of Goths who created a kingdom in northern Italy around 500 AD.
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Definition
(n.) One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth.
Typist: Martha
Definition
n. an eastern Goth: one of the tribe of east Goths who established their power in Italy in 493 and were overthrown in 555.—adj. Os′trogothic.
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Examples
- 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.
- Of the Vandal kingdom in Africa we have already written; and Italy, still in its population and habits Roman, came under the rule of the Ostrogoths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From the latter par t of the fourth century the Roman Empire had been overrun by the Visigot hs, the Vandals, the Huns, the Ostrogoths, the Lombards, and other barbarians. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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