Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of a tribe of eastern Goths that conquered and ruled Italy from AD 493 to 555.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person of the more easterly of the two great historical divisions of the Goths (see
Goth ). They established a monarchy in Italy in 493, which was overthrown in 555. Also calledEast Goth .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun One of the Eastern Goths. See
goth .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any member of an ancient East
Germanic tribe , one branch of theGoths (theVisigoths being the other), which invadedItaly in the sixth century
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the eastern group of Goths who created a kingdom in northern Italy around 500 AD
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Plus, Rome is right across the Med - way more convenient than remote Britain - and in spite of Alaric the Visigoth it was still eminently sackworthy, at least till well into the Byzantine-Ostrogoth war, or even till the Lombards finally showed up.
Pendragon, by Stephen Lawhead. Book review. Carla 2007
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Ostrogoth, Theodoric, the assassin of Symmachus, and Boëtius, because I am a good Catholic, and he was an Arian.
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All was going well with the production until the goth kids running the light booth began to speak inner Ostrogoth to each other and became super-tight.
kite and key party 2007
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He was growing to manhood, when Theodoric, the famous Ostrogoth, crossed the Alps and made himself master of Italy.
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Birth, Education, and First Exploits of Theodoric the Ostrogoth. —
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 2003
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Theodoric the Great, Ostrogoth leader and ruler of Rome
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It was on the Ostrogoth that Simenon wrote The 13 Culprits, the third series of mystery stories for Détective magazine which were designed to be stopped a few paragraphs before the ending so that readers could guess at the solutions.
The 13 Culprits Simenon, Georges, 1903- 2002
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An interesting adventure, worthy of a thriller, took place on the Ostrogoth during the writing of the “13” series.
The 13 Culprits Simenon, Georges, 1903- 2002
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Together with the emperors he named the consuls in the west, but never named an Ostrogoth.
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No Roman was in military command, no Ostrogoth in the civil service.
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