/ gɒθ; NAmE gɑːθ/ noun
1.
[ U ] 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 .
2.
[ C ] a member of a group of people who listen to goth music and wear black clothes and black and white
make-up
► goth (also gothic ) adjective
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English Gota , superseded in Middle English by the adoption of late Latin Gothi (plural), from Greek Gothoi , from Gothic Gutthiuda the Gothic people.