bohemia

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Bohemia^¹

/bəʊ̯ˈhiː.mi.ə/
/bəʊ̯ˈhiː.miː.ə/ UK
/boʊ̯ˈhi.mi.ə/ Canada, US
/bəʉ̯ˈhiː.miː.ə/ Australia
/bɐʉ̯ˈhiː.miː.ə/ New Zealand
/boˈhi.mi.ə/ Scotland
/boˈhi.mi.ʌ/ Scotland

Rhymes with -iːmiə

Where it comes from

Latinized translation of French Bohême, from Late Latin Boiohaemum, compound of Boio- (“the Boii”), the Celtic tribe previously inhabiting the area and Germanic *haimaz (“home”) (more at home). The endonym is from Proto-Celtic *boyos and could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cattle”) (compare Proto-Celtic *bāus (“cattle”), genitive *bowos), a reference to cattle owners, or from *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit”), i.e. “warrior, strong hitter” (compare Proto-Celtic *binati (“to strike, hit”)).

Bohemia was abandoned by the Boii c. 60 BCE and settled by the Germanic Marcomanni shortly thereafter. Related to Bavaria.

proper noun

A cultural region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic.
An inner suburb of Hastings, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ8010).
A hamlet in Redlynch parish, south-east Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU2019).
An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
A township in Ontonagon County, Michigan.
A township in Knox County, Nebraska.
A township in Saunders County, Nebraska.
A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Islip, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.

noun Bohemias · bohemia

A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers.
The world or social milieu of such bohemians. There was about him a certain bar-room grandiloquence that fitted easily with the shabby Bohemia of Cripps's studio, but which the curate, unused to the literary vocabulary, found exceedingly impressive.

bohemia^²

noun bohemias

Alternative letter-case form of Bohemia It's a hip place to be, Phyllis' Musical Inn: smoky, dusty, and dingy, it fulfills most expectations of contemporary urban bohemia.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: moravia, czech, bohemian, subculture, bohemianism, avant-gardism, counterculture, nonconformity, unconventionality, underground, antiestablishmentarianism, alternative, rebelliousness, experimentalism, dissidence, unorthodoxy

Translations

Every language

name the region of the Czech Republic

Español	Bohemia
中文	波希米亞 /波希米亚 Bōxīmǐyà
हिन्दी	बोहेमिया bohemiyā
Français	Bohême
Deutsch	Böhmen, Böhmerland
Italiano	Boemia
Ελληνικά	Βοημία Voïmía
Română	Boemia
Русский	Боге́мия Bogémija
Tiếng Việt	Bohemia, Bô-hêm, Bô-hem
العربية	بُوهِيمِيَا būhīmiyā
עברית	בוהמיה bohémya

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@misc{bohemia_2026,
  title = {bohemia},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bohemia},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}