Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A historical region and former kingdom of the present-day western Czech Republic. The Czechs, a Slavic people, settled in the area between the 5th and 6th centuries AD. A later principality was independent until the 15th century, when it passed to Hungary and then to the Habsburg dynasty of Austria. When Bohemia was incorporated into the newly formed state of Czechoslovakia in 1918, its capital, Prague, became the new nation's capital.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A country of central Europe.
- noun Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See
Bohemian , n., 3.
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- proper noun a
region in the west of the formerCzechoslovakia and present-dayCzech Republic . - noun A
community ofbohemians , unconventional artists or writers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic
- noun a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style
Etymologies
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Examples
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She has gained her notion of what she calls Bohemia from the comic journals.
Tommy and Co. 1893
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Marsh also published Beachhead in Bohemia: Stories (1969), a collection of short stories, some also set in Ajijic or Chapala, featuring several of the same characters and scenes as his Week with No Friday.
The Lake Chapala artistic and literary scene in the 1960s and early 1970s 2009
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Marsh also published Beachhead in Bohemia: Stories (1969), a collection of short stories, some also set in Ajijic or Chapala, featuring several of the same characters and scenes as his Week with No Friday.
The Lake Chapala artistic and literary scene in the 1960s and early 1970s 2009
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A Scandal in Bohemia, though, is the first story in the first collection, and I guess I assumed that everybody starts with The Adventures because that's where I did.
Holmes contra Holmes 2009
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New centers of the craft emerged in Bohemia, England, and France.
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Recall that in Bohemia, the middle classes by the turn of the century were thoroughly Germanized (it also happened to be the most advanced Eastern European country), as German culture had proved paramount in the region.
Matthew Yglesias » 18th Century Polish Strategic Dilemmas 2010
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There's a good reason to provide your kids with at least basic information related to financial, medical, and legal issues, says Rosanne Roge ', managing director of R.W. Roge', a wealth-management firm in Bohemia, N.Y. That way, they won't be blindsided during an emergency.
What do your adult kids know about your personal finances? 2010
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In the 18th century, the decline continued and was aggravated by worsening political climate and increased competition from the glassmakers in Bohemia and France.
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Marsh also published Beachhead in Bohemia: Stories (1969), a collection of short stories, some also set in Ajijic or Chapala, featuring several of the same characters and scenes as his Week with No Friday.
The Lake Chapala artistic and literary scene in the 1960s and early 1970s 2009
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In 1814, the transfer of Venice from France to the Habsburg Empire spelled the ultimate death sentence to Murano glassmaking as Habsburg rulers preferred their native glassmaking center in Bohemia and passed laws making it prohibitively expensive to bring necessary raw materials into Murano and export the final product.
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