Bohemia
[bəu'hi:miə]
Definition
(noun.) a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style.
(noun.) a historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic.
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Definition
(n.) A country of central Europe.
(n.) Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
(Not on the map.) A land flowing with canned milk and distilled honey and untroubled by consistency, convention, conscience or cash. A land to which many are called and few chosen.
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Examples
- The crusaders beleaguered Prague, but failed to take it, and they experienced a series of reverses that ended in their retreat from Bohemia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have already told something of the popular attempts at Reformation in Bohemia and Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The forests were felled, and the tree-tops removed and made into charcoal for use in the glass works of Bohemia. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The paper was made in Bohemia, I said. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- They found in Bohemia, under its great leader Ziska, more hardship and less loot than crusaders were disposed to face. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The survey and valuation of Bohemia is said to have been the work of more than a hundred years. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is in a German-speaking country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This species of slavery still subsists in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, and other parts of Germany. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- An apologist for dynamite told me once that society was divided into the weak and the strong, and there are people who draw a line between Philistia and Bohemia. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed into the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Into Bohemia and Moravia came and settled a Slavic people, the Czechs (451). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The crusaders, advancing by slow marches, penetrated further into Bohemia, till they reached the neighbourhood of the town of Domazlice (Tauss). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Moreover, in 1094 and 1095 there had been a pestilence and famine from the Scheldt to Bohemia, and there was great social disorganization. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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