Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A native or inhabitant of Bohemia.
- n. The Czech dialects of Bohemia.
- n. A Gypsy.
- n. An itinerant person; a vagabond.
Wiktionary
- n. countable A native or resident of Bohemia.
- n. uncountable The dialect of the Czech language spoken in Bohemia.
- n. countable, archaic A Gypsy, a Romani.
- n. countable, slang A marginalized and impoverished young artist, or member of the urban literati.
- adj. Of, or relating to Bohemia or its language.
- adj. Of, or relating to the untraditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished artists, writers, musicians, and actors in major European cities (or by extension, major North American cities as well).
Etymologies
- Bohemia + -ian (Wiktionary)
- Sense 3, translation of French bohémien; see bohemian. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He had a taste for literature and a longing for travel and military adventure in especial, and for a time he lived a pleasant, free and easy, Bohemian sort of life, if we may use the term Bohemian in describing days that existed long before Henri”
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
“It was what they call a Bohemian party, I'm told - meaning that they could all drink as much as they liked without any servants to tell tales on them.”
“Francis had required all the firmness of what he called his Bohemian head to resist the threats, entreaties, and cajoleries employed to get him to acquiesce in the dethronement of the King of Saxony, and the wiping out of the”
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
“Francis had required all the firmness of what he called his Bohemian head to resist the threats, entreaties, and cajoleries employed to get him to acquiesce in the dethronement of the King of Saxony, and the wiping out of the Saxon nationality by the very alliance which professed to fight only for the rights of nations and of their lawful sovereigns.”
“LAMB: Did you call the Bohemian Grove and say, "I'd like to come"?”
“This is truly Bohemian," remarked Mrs. Clyde, as with a newspaper for both plate and napkin, she joined the group about the fire, "-- much more so than the studio-luncheons they call Bohemian in Boston.”
“By a curious perversion of language, on account of various gypsies who about two centuries ago travelled westward across Bohemia and thereby came to be known in France as "Bohemians," the word Bohemian came into use to designate one who lived an easy, careless life, unhampered by serious responsibilities.”
“I suggested to my American friends that the abandonment of the word Bohemian in its historical sense might well extend to its literary and figurative sense.”
“Erectione Crucis_, etc. He wrote in Latin, Bohemian, and German, and recently his Bohemian writings have been edited by K.J. Erben, Prague”
“The Utraquists, for by this title the Bohemian Protestants continued to designate themselves, were put in possession of the University of Prague, and allowed a Consistory of their own, entirely independent of the archiepiscopal see of that city.”
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