Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Germanic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the early centuries of the Christian era.
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- proper noun A member of the
East Germanic tribe, whoinvaded theRoman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries. - proper noun figuratively uncivilized person, barbarian,
Vandal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I’ve been watching the rare goth lesbian beauty in the video Overload Created by two Germans; the country that invented modern Goth.
Archive 2007-03-01 Elizabeth McClung 2007
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I’ve been watching the rare goth lesbian beauty in the video Overload Created by two Germans; the country that invented modern Goth.
Lesbian goth, gothic self harmers, cutters & a love story Elizabeth McClung 2007
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I did read just the other day that the term Goth, in its original meaning was derogatory.
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Middle Ages the term Goth served — as it still does today — to designate the Germanic tribal group that migrated into Spain, southwestern France, and Italy in the late phase of the Roman Empire.
CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968
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Through this process of identification the scope of the term Goth expanded enormously: geographically, to the borders of the Germanic world in Scandinavia and its offshoots in Iceland and Green - land, as well as to England; and temporally, reaching early modern times so that, for example, it seemed natural to hail the seventeenth-century Swedish king
CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968
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But then, he said, in recent years, he changed and started this different lifestyle, dressing in all black, and doing sort of what they call the Goth lifestyle.
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The "Goth" is put back into Gotham, with Batman being much more of a gargoyle figure.
Review of Batman Begins Richard Nokes 2005
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The "Goth" is put back into Gotham, with Batman being much more of a gargoyle figure.
Archive 2005-06-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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• One could says that Goth is an artistic movement centered around music and fashion.
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Goth is a look that simultaneously expresses and cures its own sense of alienation.
Boing Boing 2008
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