(a.) Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.
(n.) Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or "Bohemian" (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy.
(n.) A native of Bohemia.
(n.) The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family.
(n.) A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals.
Example Sentences:
(1) And he enjoyed holding court to pretty girls and jolly lads at the Academy Club, a bohemian joint he founded next to his office.
(2) This circumstance--for the closed herd turnover in this country has been abandoned--can be considered a potential risk of Q fever outbreak in the human population not only in the Southern Bohemian region, but also in other localities.
(3) Reith, “his dour handsome face scarred like that of a villain in a melodrama”, was “a strange shepherd for such a mixed, bohemian flock … he had under his aegis a bevy of ex-soldiers, ex-actors, ex-adventurers which … even a Dartmoor prison governor might have had difficulty in controlling”.
(4) Newly arrived in London from upstate New York, Ruthie remembers Rose, who was 10 years older, as bohemian, exotic and exciting, bursting with energy, despite the three young children in tow.
(5) The levels of IgG, IgA, IgM, lysozyme, agglutinins against B. pertussis and B. parapertussis were followed in the blood serum of 306 children 9--10 years old in 3 areas of Central Bohemian region.
(6) You couldn't get much more bohemian than the music playing in this room of tiny round tables, first French crooner Serge Gainsbourg and then cabaret freak Scott Walker wailing of their obelisk-size pain.
(7) Faderman extends the initial focus on romantic friendships and bohemian experimenting by looking at the military in the second world war and the growth of bars and clubs in the repressive McCarthy era.
(8) And many who shouted the odds about a nonconformist, anti-establishment lifestyle are now rats in the ratrace: even as a poet I seem to spend most of my time filling in forms, teaching, going to meetings, commuting – hardly the bohemian fantasy.
(9) It had begun as a subdued explosion, really, in the early 1960s, when a new generation of bohemians began to adapt and mutate the culture of the 'Beats' - Jack Kerouac et al - which had installed itself on North Beach during the late 1950s.
(10) He is sporting a bohemian look, with a long, curly ponytail and large spectacles.
(11) Generations of foreign correspondents, aid workers and policymakers took the pulse of southern Africa not in the embassies and government offices of Pretoria, but in a guesthouse in Melville, a bohemian neighbourhood in Johannesburg.
(12) The authors present an analysis of the use of transfusion preparations in 1973 in the West Bohemian region, where satisfactory results were obtained due to the cooperation of the regional commission for expedient pharmacotherapy, specialists of different branches, heads of blood transfusion departments and doctors working in these departments.
(13) Within this apocalyptic tradition, Cohn identified the Flagellants who massacred the Jews of Frankfurt in 1349; the widespread heresy of the Free Spirit; the 16th-century Anabaptist theocracy of Münster (though some have criticised Cohn's account of this extraordinary event as lurid); the Bohemian Hussites; the instigators of the German peasants' war; and the Ranters of the English civil war.
(14) I popped in for a nightcap but end up staying for two hours, serenaded by locals murdering everything from Japanese power ballads to cheesy Brazilian pop and Bohemian Rhapsody.
(15) This is Stokes Croft, the gloriously bohemian corner of Bristol that has become a byword for the fight against the so-called "Big Four": Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons – and, of course, Tesco.
(16) Notoriously, the networks of homosexuality seemed to transcend many more formal social and political boundaries, reifying crossovers not only between national and ethnic cultures, but between high society and the demi-mondes of bohemian artists, and so forth.
(17) He tossed Shakespeare into a modern-day, thinly veiled Miami in the electrifying Romeo + Juliet and sent Nicole Kidman wafting, purring and simpering through bohemian Paris in Moulin Rouge!
(18) Every pub draws the audience it deserves, and Bar Fringe's crowd is an unlikely mix of hairy bikers, bohemian folk, gnarled beer-tickers and brainy students, who leave mystifying, maths-related graffiti in the toilets.
(19) In the 1920s, he distanced himself from his Jewish faith and immersed himself in Dresden's bohemian art scene while continuing to practise as a lawyer.
(20) "Swansea's Bohemians in exile," were, boasted Dylan, "going to ring the bells of London and paint it like a tart."
Cosmopolitan
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Cosmopolite
(a.) Alt. of Cosmopolite
Example Sentences:
(1) Possible participation of the in vitro synthesized polypeptides in providing functions of cosmopolitanism and mobilization is being considered.
(2) Photograph: Tathiana Yumi Kurita The look on the street is as diverse as the city itself, but on the whole it’s cosmopolitan and smart, with some lightness and freshness to it – it is a tropical country we live in, after all.
(3) It’s a cheap shot, but for Latham, politics has always been about his western Sydney roots and his fury with leftists “enjoying the luxury of high incomes and cosmopolitan interests” while dismissing suburban Australians as sexist, racist and homophobic.
(4) The law will affect a wide variety of publications, including the country’s leading business daily, Vedomosti, the Russian versions of glossy magazines such as Esquire, GQ and Cosmopolitan, and television channels such as Disney and Eurosport.
(5) Urban nurses express negative attitudes toward incorporating indigenous practitioners into the cosmopolitan care setting.
(6) Of greater importance are the cosmopolitan infectious diseases such as typhoid fever, paratyphoid, salmonella enteritis, poliomyelitis, viral hepatitides which are transmitted orally and altogether are imported in no small numbers.
(7) Yet there is a great sense of unity among a cosmopolitan squad.
(8) "I think that turning to Europe is an attempt to escape a difficult identity in favour of a more simple one … This idea will always fail, because a German who goes to France, England, the United States and presents him or herself as simply a European, this is not what he is, he is not just a European, he's a German and those who travel learn that the world is not as cosmopolitan and international as we'd like it to be."
(9) In rapidly-changing and cosmopolitan Singapore, ergonomic principles are vital to all facets of manufacturing processes and the transportation and distribution of goods, but ergonomic practice can be complicated by several factors as indicated by such examples.
(10) They are mainly represented by latrines, where Anjouan ethnic group is predominent; by cesspools in localities inhabited by Sakalava (a Malagasian ethnic group) and by other latrines and cesspools in mahoraises (inhabitants of Mayotte) and cosmopolitan localities.
(11) It might sound strange but when I was very young I read these women magazines like Cosmopolitan and they were pretty feminist.
(12) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
(13) The "capital" of the ancient Irish western province of Connaught is also something of a cosmopolitan spot, with a fifth of its population falling into the non-Galwegian category.
(14) Fascioliasis has a cosmopolitan distribution and is prevalent in sheep-raising countries.
(15) A cosmopolitan coach got a culture shock when Everton adopted an old-school British approach by introducing Koné alongside Romelu Lukaku to form a towering attacking duo as Martínez deployed a tactic Fellaini might have enjoyed.
(16) The intricate cosmopolitan weave of the city was pulled apart.
(17) Company launched in 1978, aiming at a younger demographic than Hearst sister title Cosmopolitan.
(18) People take naked photos of themselves for all sorts of reasons – a 2014 survey by Cosmopolitan found that 89% of millennial women have taken naked photos of themselves (and only 14% regretted it).
(19) Not all species of dermatophytes are cosmopolitan in their distribution throughout the world.
(20) Instead, what we get is Cosmopolitan's recent Condom Kama Sutra, which attempts to "make condoms sexy" by suggesting a series of "moves" a woman could do, one of which involves applying one with your tits.