A Goth is a member of the

Goths The Goths ( got, 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰, translit=''Gutþiuda''; la, Gothi, grc-gre, Γότθοι, Gótthoi) were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Euro ...

, a group of

East Germanic East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the ...

tribes. Two major political entities of the Goths were: *

Visigoths The Visigoths (; la, Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were an early Germanic people who, along with the Ostrogoths, constituted the two major political entities of the Goths within the Roman Empire in late antiquity, or what is k ...

, prominent in Spanish history *

Ostrogoths The Ostrogoths ( la, Ostrogothi, Austrogothi) were a Roman-era Germanic people. In the 5th century, they followed the Visigoths in creating one of the two great Gothic kingdoms within the Roman Empire, based upon the large Gothic populations who ...

, prominent in Italian history Goth or Goths may also refer to: *

Goth (surname) Goth, Göth (also Goeth) or Góth is a surname of German and Hungarian origin. The German-language surname is a variant of Goethe (also Göthe), which belongs to the group of surnames derived from given names, in this case given names in ''Got-'' ...

Gothic rock Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie ...

or just goth, a music genre *

Goth subculture Goth is a music-based subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. It was developed by fans of Gothic rock, an offshoot of the post-punk music genre. The name ''Goth'' was derived directly from the genre. Notable post-pu ...

* ''Goth'' (novel), a 2003 Japanese novel by Otsuichi * Goth (''Silverwing''), a character in the ''Silverwing'' series *

Goth (village) Goth ( ur, ) means "village" in Sindhi language. ''Goth'' is a prefix or postfix in village names in Sindh, Pakistan. Goth can also be a small neighborhood in Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th m ...

, a word meaning village in Sindhi * ''Goths'' (album), by the Mountain Goats *The Goth, nickname of

Thoby Stephen Julian Thoby Stephen (9 September 1880 – 20 November 1906), known as the Goth, was the brother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, both prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group, and of Adrian Stephen. Thoby Stephen was the eldest son of L ...

* ''Goth'' (2008 film), a Japanese drama film * ''Goth'' (2003 film), an American horror film *A nickname for ''

Gothenburg Public House System The Gothenburg or Trust Public House system originated in the 1860s in Gothenburg, Sweden, in an attempt to control the consumption of spirits. Earlier in the century, 34 litres annual per capita consumption of spirits was recorded in Sweden. ...

'' and the bars which are part of them, especially in Scotland

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