Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gothic revival

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables: goth-ic re-vival
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

architectural style that drew its inspiration from medieval architecture and competed with the Neoclassical revivals in the United States and Great Britain.

Example Sentences

"In England, the centre of the Gothic revival movement, Gothic revival was intertwined with deeply philosophical movements associated with a re-awakening of High Church or Anglo-Catholic belief (and by the Catholic convert Augustus Welby Pugin) concerned by the growth of religious nonconformism."

Synonyms

Gothic revival architecture neo-Gothic neo-Gothic architecture

Questions

What does gothic revival mean?: architectural style that drew its inspiration from medieval architecture and competed with the Neoclassical revivals in the United States and Great Britain.

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