GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gothic architecture mean? 

• GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE (noun)
  The noun GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE has 1 sense:

1. a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches

  Familiarity information: GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE (noun)

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Meaning:

A style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Gothic; Gothic architecture

Hypernyms ("Gothic architecture" is a kind of...):

architectural style; style of architecture; type of architecture (architecture as a kind of art form)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Gothic architecture"):

English-Gothic; English-Gothic architecture; perpendicular; perpendicular style (a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting)