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Collegiate Gothic

Collegiate Gothic proper noun: a style of Gothic Revival architecture inspired by Gothic, which includes Camford/Oxbridge style quadrangle campuses, and American Gothic style buildings. Used on North American university and college campuses, and other schools of high prestige (prep schools, private schools, etc).

Proper noun

Collegiate Gothic

  1. (US) A style of Gothic Revival architecture inspired by Gothic, which includes Camford/Oxbridge style quadrangle campuses, and American Gothic style buildings. Used on North American university and college campuses, and other schools of high prestige (prep schools, private schools, etc).

Origin of Collegiate Gothic

From being a style found on colleges and universities similar to gothic.

Questions about Collegiate Gothic

What does Collegiate Gothic mean?
Collegiate Gothic means a style of Gothic Revival architecture inspired by Gothic, which includes Camford/Oxbridge style quadrangle campuses, and American Gothic style buildings. Used on North American university and college campuses, and other schools of high prestige (prep schools, private schools, etc).
What part of speech is Collegiate Gothic?
Collegiate Gothic is a proper noun.

Words near Collegiate Gothic in the dictionary

  1. Collegiantism
  2. Collegiants
  3. collegiate
  4. collegiate church
  5. collegiate churches
  6. Collegiate Gothic
  7. Collegiate Peaks
  8. collegiately
  9. collegiateness
  10. collegiates
  11. collegienne

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