Bohemia

/boʊˈhimiə/ name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers.
  2. 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. 3
    a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style wordnet
  4. 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. 1
    A cultural region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic.
  2. 2
    A place name elsewhere:; A place in England:; An inner suburb of Hastings, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ8010).
  3. 3
    A place name elsewhere:; A place in England:; A hamlet in Redlynch parish, south-east Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU2019).
  4. 4
    A place name elsewhere:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
  5. 5
    A place name elsewhere:; A place in the United States:; A township in Ontonagon County, Michigan.
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  1. 6
    A place name elsewhere:; A place in the United States:; A township in Knox County, Nebraska.
  2. 7
    A place name elsewhere:; A place in the United States:; A township in Saunders County, Nebraska.
  3. 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

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bohemian culturebohemian lifestylebohemianismczech landsgeographic regionhistoric region

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"In South Bohemia, there is a calm and sunny landscape with plenty of lakes used for freshwater fish farming."

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.

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