Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: bohemia
IPA transcription: [boʊh'imiə]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: bohemia
    Meaning: a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style
  • Synonyms: Bohemia
    Meaning: a historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic
Usage examples
  • He left Bohemia with more than a thousand dollars in savings, after their passage money was paid.
  • Frederick and Sophia of Denmark, and Rudolph of Bohemia, are therefore to be remembered as co-workers with him.
  • In the Eastern provinces, and before that in Bohemia, he had learned the art of quartering himself upon the enemy.
  • A little of Egypt and Bohemia in the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of the powerful.
  • Never thought of that complication, did you, in this 'off to Bohemia, and express yourself, and free love, and live your own life' stuff!"
  • We do not find that his circumstances were ever prosperous, and though 8,000 crowns were due to him from Bohemia he could not manage to get them paid.
  • While Bohemia suffered, however, the world has benefited at his hands; and the tables upon which Tycho was now engaged are well called the Rudolphine tables.
  • We had already attained a depth of six thousand feet beyond that hitherto reached by the foot of man, such as the mines of Kitz Bahl in Tyrol, and those of Wuttembourg in Bohemia.