GOTH

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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.

• GOTH (noun)

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)