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noun
1.
a native or inhabitant of Bohemia.
2.
(usually lowercase
) a person, as an artist or writer, who lives and acts free of regard for conventional rules and practices.
) a person, as an artist or writer, who lives and acts free of regard for conventional rules and practices.4.
a Gypsy.
adjective
5.
of or pertaining to Bohemia, its people, or their language.
6.
(usually lowercase) pertaining to or characteristic of the unconventional life of a bohemian.
) pertaining to or characteristic of the unconventional life of a bohemian.7.
living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
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Bohemian
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Example Sentences
- In true bohemian fashion, a transplanted garden shed served as the kids' bedroom.
- He is clean cut, friendly and bohemian, yet refined in his tastes.
- She was proper in some ways and bohemian in others.
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Word Origin & History
bohemian
"a gypsy of society," 1848, from Fr. bohemién (1550s), from the country name (see Bohemia). The modern sense is perhaps from the use of this country name since 15c. in Fr. for "gypsy" (they were wrongly believed to have come from there, though their first appearance
EXPANDin W.Europe may have been directly from there), or from association with 15c. Bohemian heretics. It was popularized by Henri Murger's 1845 story collection "Scenes de la Vie de Boheme," the basis of Puccini's "La Bohème." Used in English 1848 in Thackary's "Vanity Fair."
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"The term 'Bohemian' has come to be very commonly accepted in our day as the description of a certain kind of literary gipsey, no matter in what language he speaks, or what city he inhabits .... A Bohemian is simply an artist or littérateur who, consciously or unconsciously, secedes from conventionality in life and in art." ["Westminster Review," 1862]
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Cultural Dictionary
bohemian definition
A descriptive term for a stereotypical way of life for artists and intellectuals. According to the stereotype, bohemians live in material poverty because they prefer their art or their learning to lesser goods; they are also unconventional in habits and dress, and sometimes in morals.
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