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BOHEMIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bohemian" is a kind of...):
nonconformist; recusant (someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Bohemia in the Czech Republic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Bohemian" is a kind of...):
European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)
Holonyms ("Bohemian" is a part of...):
Czech Republic (a landlocked republic in central Europe; separated from Slovakia in 1993)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America)
Synonyms:
Bohemian; Gipsy; Gypsy; Roma; Romani; Romany; Rommany
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Bohemian" is a kind of...):
Indian (a native or inhabitant of India)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Bohemian"):
gitana (a Spanish female Gypsy)
gitano (a Spanish male Gypsy)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unconventional in especially appearance and behavior
Example:
a bohemian life style
Classified under:
Similar:
unconventional (not conforming to accepted rules or standards)
Derivation:
bohemia (a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to Bohemia or its language or people
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Bohemia (a historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic)
Derivation:
Bohemia (a historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic)
Context examples:
This argument of the seneschal's appealed so powerfully to the Bohemian and to the Hospitaller that they at once intimated that their objections had been entirely overcome, while even the Lady Rochefort, who had sat shivering and crossing herself, ceased to cast glances at the door, and allowed her fears to turn to curiosity.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
