Gothic vs architectural style

architectural style vs Gothic

Gothic and architectural style both are nouns.

Gothic is an adjective but architectural style is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Gothic	Yes	Yes	No	No
architectural style	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, architectural style is a hypernym of Gothic; that is, architectural style is a word with a broader meaning than Gothic:

Gothic: a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches
architectural style: architecture as a kind of art form

Other hypernyms of Gothic include style of architecture, type of architecture.

Gothic (noun)	architectural style (noun)
a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches	architecture as a kind of art form
extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas
a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries

Gothic (adjective)	architectural style (adjective)
of or relating to the Goths
of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths
characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German

Difference between Gothic and architectural style

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