bohemia
IPA: boʊhˈimiʌ
Root Word: Bohemia
noun
- A region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic.
- A place name elsewhere:
- A place in England:
- An inner suburb of Hastings, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ8010).
- A hamlet in Redlynch parish, south-east Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU2019).
- A place in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
- A township in Ontonagon County, Michigan.
- A township in Knox County, Nebraska.
- A township in Saunders County, Nebraska.
- A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Islip, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
- A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers.
- Alternative letter-case form of Bohemia [A region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic.]
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Examples of "bohemia" in Sentences
- That's the bohemia of the moment.
- Ties to Bohemia are even earlier.
- Bohemia was an integral part of the HRE.
- Germans in Bohemia protested vociferously.
- It belongs to the historical land of Bohemia.
- The Tyndall Family and the Throne of Bohemia.
- Bohemia competed in gymnastics, with one gymnast.
- And historically this town belonged to southern Bohemia.
- He sends Antigonus to leave the infant Perdita on the seacoast of Bohemia.
- His accent is somewhere between Portobello Road bohemia and public school.
- In reprisal, the Nazis forbade the church to operate in Bohemia and Moravia.
- Today's bohemia, according to Mr. Chanler-Berat, may be somewhere off the L train.
- It's something to do with bohemia and computers ...... it's the underground with computers.
- The word "bohemia" has many romantic connotations: thick dark forests, strong beer and fine glassware.
- Just as "bohemia" was the refuge of impecunious artists and writers, so Mexico will be to some NOB retirees.
- Hip is a moveable feast and as new wealth arrives, the new residents and professional developers are turning Berlin's bohemia into the new bourgeoisie.
- At the bustling Orna and Ella bistro on Shenkin Street—synonymous with Tel Aviv bohemia—celebrities and entertainment executives nosh on pastries and sip espresso, not unlike at L.A.'s Toast.
- Good bets include Göran Olsson's "The Black Power Mixtape (1967-1975)," "Tyrannosaur" (the debut feature by British actor Paddy Considine), Nicolás Pereda's "Summer of Goliath" and "Microphone," whose look at contemporary Egyptian bohemia is of timely interest.
- Here I thought you were Bohemian and I said no my folks are from downstate and he says no bohemia isn't really a place anymore it's a state of mind for people who have aesthetic values and I said my sister is an aesthetician she graduated from Lane School of Hairdressing.
- He is a man at ease in the life of a 21st-century aesthete, swaying between glamour and bohemia, the realms of Hollywood (with whose denizens he parties and for which he's written screenplays) and the Cape (where he's a beloved friend to brilliant people who eschew worldly ambition).
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