MEANING
Associated with unconventional artistic lifestyles that disregard established social expectations.
Use it for
Artist communities; alternative social life; resistance to conventional respectabilitySuggest a local culture organized around art and unconventional habits.
Words that belong together
- bohemian quarter
- bohemian café
- bohemian atmosphere
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The bohemian quarter supported poets who paid for meals with readings.
A café could call itself bohemian and still charge very conventional prices.
They moved into the bohemian district for its workshops, not its nightlife.
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- Base
- bohemian
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Often romanticized; does not simply mean poor or untidy. Lowercase for this social sense; Bohemian relating to Bohemia is a different use. Comparative: more bohemian; superlative: most bohemian.
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