Definition/Meaning of Bohemia

• English - Proper noun: Bohemia A cultural region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic . A place name elsewhere: 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 ,…
• English - Noun: Bohemia (plural Bohemias) A community of bohemian s, unconventional artists or writers. The world or social milieu of such bohemians. 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 96: 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…
• English - References: ^ Dietz, Karlheinz (Würzburg). “Boiohaemum.” Brill’s New Pauly , 2012. Reference . 14 March 2012
• English - See also: Moravia Silesia Sudetenland Czechia
• English - Etymology: 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…