Bohemian
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7.2
- noun
- /boʊˈhiːmiən/
:
bohemio
- Many artists and writers in the 19th century were inspired by the lives of Bohemians in Paris.
- Bohemians and Czechs
Examples
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The Bohemian community in Prague celebrates traditional festivals to honor their cultural heritage.
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It's where the Bohemian Club meets.
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Previously, they would have thought of themselves as German Bohemians, German Moravians, or just Germans.
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See, the Germans were blocking the local Bohemian parliament's work, Bohemia being the Czech crown lands.
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The immigrants sensed that among English speakers, Moravian was more favorably received than Bohemian.
Academic text (1996) -
Even today in Texas, the word Bohemian for Czechs, Moravians, and their neighbors has a negative connotation which Czech does not.
Academic text (1996) -
The 1910 census identified a population of 41,080 "Bohemians and Moravians" in Texas.
Academic text (1996) -
A painting by Christian Krohg, A Corner of My Studio (Bohemians) (Fig. 6), records the studio life of Munch in 1885.
Academic text (1993) -
As Seigel has suggested, artists framing themselves as Bohemians occupied the borderland between bourgeois stability and the anarchy of the streets.
Academic text (1993) -
My grandparents are Bohemians who came to America in search of a better life.
Synonyms
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4.1
A person from the Czech Republic
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word Bohemian comes from Bohemia, a region whose name originally meant 'home of the Boii', an old tribe. So a Bohemian is a person 'from Bohemia', which is now part of the Czech Republic.