Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A community of persons with artistic or literary tastes who adopt manners and mores conspicuously different from those expected or approved of by the majority of society.
- n. The district in which bohemians live.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative capitalization of Bohemia
Etymologies
- Back-formation from bohemian. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Just as "bohemia" was the refuge of impecunious artists and writers, so Mexico will be to some NOB retirees.”
“The word "bohemia" has many romantic connotations: thick dark forests, strong beer and fine glassware.”
“His accent is somewhere between Portobello Road bohemia and public school.”
The Guardian: The Young British Actors taking Hollywood by storm
“It's something to do with bohemia and computers ...... it's the underground with computers.”
“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.”
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: Berlin's Real-Estate Transformation
“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).”
The Washington Post: Michael Cunningham and a new generation of writers transcend 'gay literature'
“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.”
“Today's bohemia, according to Mr. Chanler-Berat, may be somewhere off the L train.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bohemia’.
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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states of mind: from absurdistan to zion
Countries, lands, cities that capture, or haunt, our dreams. Some of the places listed might be the names of actual localities, but here they are states of mind.
absurdistan, banana republic, utopia, mitteleuropa, new jerusalem, deseret, canaan, zion, ruritania, outer slobovia, lower slobovia, avalon and 126 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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Transtemporal AAA
A roadtrip for the ages. Archaic, uncommon, alternative, etc.
pangea, siam, persia, gaul, mesopotamia, prussia, hindustan, byzantium, bohemia, burma, assyria, hispaniola and 13 more...
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Some prettier-sounding Shakespearean ...
verona, syracuse, sicily, padua, milan, messina, messaline, mantua, illyria, glamis, epidamnum, dusinane and 8 more...
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