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Definition of Bohemia

1. Noun. A historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic.

2. Noun. A group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style.

Definition of Bohemia

1. n. A country of central Europe.

Definition of Bohemia

1. Proper noun. a region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic. ¹

2. Noun. A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers. ¹

3. Noun. (alternative capitalization of Bohemia) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bohemia

1. a community of bohemians [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bohemia

Bogartian Bogdan Bogdanci Bogdanovian Boggabri Boglin Bognor Regis Bogo-Indian Bogota Bogotan

Bogra District Bogros' serous membrane Bogros' space Bogyman Bohairic Bohemia Bohemian Bohemian-Moravian Highlands Bohemian waxwing Bohemian waxwings

Bohemianism Bohemians Bohme Bohmian Bohn's nodules Boho Bohr Bohr's atom Bohr's equation Bohr's theory

Literary usage of Bohemia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1852)
"Descent of Anne of bohemia—Letter of the empress Elizabeth—Anne of bohemia ... THE ancestors of the princess Anne of bohemia originated from the same ..."

2. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1903)
"bohemia. to be brought about in a more lasting shape from the other side. This was the annexation of Austria by the kingdom of bohemia. ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Its principal affluents are the Adler, l < r and Eger, then west, and afterwards north-west through bohemia, and then and, mort important of all, ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The Dukes of Bavaria, the Archdukes of Austria, the Kings of bohemia, ... In approaching the melancholy history of Hungary and bohemia from 1490 to 1526, ..."

5. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1902)
"OVERLOOKED bohemia By Eugene Van Cleef State Normal School, Duluth, Minn. SINCE the beginning of the European conflict essentially nothing has been said ..."

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