goth
noun/ɡɒθ/
/ɡɑːθ/
- [uncountable] a style of rock music, popular in the 1980s, that developed from punk music. The words often expressed ideas about the end of the world, death or the devil.
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- [countable] a member of a group of people who listen to goth music and wear black clothes and black and white make-up
- Goth[countable] a member of a Germanic people who fought against the Roman Empire
Word OriginOld English Gota, superseded in Middle English by the adoption of late Latin Gothi (plural), from Greek Gothoi, from Gothic Gutthiuda ‘the Gothic people’.
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