bohemian
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- noun
- /boʊˈhiːmiən/
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bohemio
- Tina and Edward's home became a meeting place for writers, artists, folksingers, bohemians, and politicians.
- bourgeois bohemians
I'm afraid it sounds a little as if I were a lousy bohemian and lover of the earth earthy, but I assume I'm nothing so foul quite as that.
- I'm afraid it sounds a little as if I were a lousy bohemian and lover of the earth earthy, but I assume I'm nothing so foul quite as that.
Examples
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You're a bunch of wild, young bohemians.
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Then a bohemian inherited it in the '60s, then a bunch of free spirits moved in, and they lost it to the bank.
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In Silver Lake, Bohemian is a way of life.
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Which was why this bohemian from California... ...was on her way to the most conservative college in the nation.
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And he was renting out rooms to bohemian characters.
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It's because I'm the only bohemian in London, people take advantage of me.
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It was regarded as bohemian.
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I'm a bohemian.
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Bohemians and other noble failures of all kinds are no longer admired.
Academic text (2001) -
The gallery was filled with works by local bohemians who were pushing the limits of traditional art.
Synonyms
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A person who prefers alternative clothes, music, and ideas to mainstream culture
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A young person in the 1950s who lived a free, artistic life and wore unusual clothes
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A person with unusual habits or behavior
A person with middle-class money who likes art, organic food, and unusual styles
Antonyms
Compounds
How Unconventional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bohemian first named people from Bohemia, a place in central Europe. In 1800s France the word was used for traveling artists and creative people who did not follow normal rules, so a bohemian today is someone who lives an 'unconventional' life for art.