What does "bohemia" mean?
A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers.
Bohemia
/boʊˈhimiə/ name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers.
- Grammar: bohemia is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: bohemian culture, bohemian lifestyle, bohemianism, czech lands.
- Useful contrasts: bourgeois lifestyle, conformity.
- Usage evidence: In South Bohemia, there is a calm and sunny landscape with plenty of lakes used for freshwater fish farming.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers.
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Bohemia. alt-of
"It's a hip place to be, Phyllis' Musical Inn: smoky, dusty, and dingy, it fulfills most expectations of contemporary urban bohemia."
- 3 a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style wordnet
- 4 The world or social milieu of such bohemians.
"There was about him a certain bar-room grandiloquence that fitted easily with the shabby Bohemia of Cripps's studio, but which the curate, unused to the literary vocabulary, found exceedingly impressive."
Proper Noun
- 1 A cultural region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic.
- 2 A place name elsewhere:; A place in England:; An inner suburb of Hastings, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ8010).
- 3 A place name elsewhere:; A place in England:; A hamlet in Redlynch parish, south-east Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU2019).
- 4 A place name elsewhere:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
- 5 A place name elsewhere:; A place in the United States:; A township in Ontonagon County, Michigan.
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- 6 A place name elsewhere:; A place in the United States:; A township in Knox County, Nebraska.
- 7 A place name elsewhere:; A place in the United States:; A township in Saunders County, Nebraska.
- 8 A place name elsewhere:; A place in the United States:; A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Islip, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Synonyms
All synonymsAntonyms
bourgeois lifestyleconformity
Example
"In South Bohemia, there is a calm and sunny landscape with plenty of lakes used for freshwater fish farming."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "bohemia"?
Common synonyms include: bohemian culture, bohemian lifestyle, bohemianism, czech lands, geographic region, historic region.
How do you use "bohemia" in a sentence?
In South Bohemia, there is a calm and sunny landscape with plenty of lakes used for freshwater fish farming.
How do you pronounce "bohemia"?
Pronounced /boʊˈhimiə/.
Etymology
Latinized translation of French Bohême, from Late Latin Boiohaemum, compound of Boio- (“the Boii”), the Celtic tribe previously inhabiting the area and Germanic *haimaz (“home”) (more at home). The endonym is from Proto-Celtic *boyos and could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cattle”) (compare Proto-Celtic *bāus (“cattle”), genitive *bowos), a reference to cattle owners, or from *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit”), i.e. “warrior, strong hitter” (compare Proto-Celtic *binati (“to strike, hit”)). Bohemia was abandoned by the Boii c. 60 BCE and settled by the Germanic Marcomanni shortly thereafter. Related to Bavaria.