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• GOTH (noun)
The noun GOTH has 2 senses:
1. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
2. one of the Teutonic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries
Familiarity information: GOTH used as a noun is rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
barbarian; boor; churl; Goth; peasant; tike; tyke
Hypernyms ("Goth" is a kind of...):
disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One of the Teutonic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Goth" is a kind of...):
Teuton (a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Goth"):
Ostrogoth (a member of the eastern group of Goths who created a kingdom in northern Italy around 500 AD)
Visigoth (a member of the western group of Goths who sacked Rome and created a kingdom in present-day Spain and southern France)
Context examples
You are indeed, cried Ford, laughing, a Goth, Hun, and Vandal, with all the other hard names which the old man called us.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Take a Goth, a Hun, and a Vandal, mix them together and add a Barbary rover; then take this creature and make him drunk—and you have an Englishman.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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