(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."
Nonconformist
Definition:
(n.) One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Patterns of food exclusion and of frequency of consumption of 35 foods and food groups were consistent with classifications as conformists or nonconformists.
(3) He was the nonconformist hero of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros at the Royal Court in 2007 and the hedonistic historian in Rattigan’s After The Dance at the National in 2010 .
(4) Dr Pangloss, aka Gove, took the view that journalism was a rough sort of trade, attracting nonconformists or, to put it another way, the reckless types who might not be above hacking a phone or breaking a law or two.
(5) His journey through Fettes College, Oxford, the bar and high churchery had given him not one gene of old Labour nonconformist puritanism.
(6) Individuals who were willing to grant such rights to homosexuals as teaching in college, speaking in a local community, and removing a book from a local library written by a homosexual and favorable to homosexuality, tended to be well educated, young, Jewish or nonreligious, from urban areas, raised in the Northeast or Pacific states, and willing to provide freedom of expression to people with nonconformist political ideas.
(7) "R ebel rebel, you've torn your dress," observed David Bowie in 1974, setting the bar rather low for aspiring nonconformists.
(8) "Here's someone who's one of the most nonconformist individuals you can think of.
(9) For example, the nonconformist tradition Labour and the liberals inherited saw gambling as one of the worst forms of exploitation.
(10) Otherwise difficulties arise in road traffic from the psychiatric point of view through the nonconformist behavior of the normal citizen who apparently finds it difficult to realize the principles of self-responsibility.
(11) An instrument for differentiating between individuals exhibiting conformist and nonconformist or nontraditional food consumption patterns was developed and used for recruitment and identification of respondents for a study of food-related behavior and attitudes.
(12) We are here to remember a hero,” said Dr Usman Chaudhary, opening the service at the British Muslim Heritage Centre, a grade II* listed building in south Manchester which originally housed a seminary for nonconformist Christian ministers.
(13) However, parents, teachers, and institutions must display considerably more flexibility and tolerance towards individually minded persons who behave in seemingly nonconformist ways.
(14) Clinical and psychological examinations helped identify two basic patterns of psychic adaptation to stressful flying activities which manifested as asthenic trends and predisposition to nonconformist behaviour.
(15) Within months a new religion had emerged – spiritualism – a mixture of liberal, nonconformist values and fireside chats with dead people.
(16) Prince: a shy, nonconformist, unknowable talent | Alexis Petridis Read more Intense press scrutiny didn’t seem to agree with Prince, who shunned interviews and in 1985 announced his retirement from live performing.
(17) Even this august organ, which sprang from the loins of nonconformist dissent, astounded many readers with its broad acres of Pope reverencing.
(18) And today I cried at least three or four times.” Prince: a shy, nonconformist, unknowable talent | Alexis Petridis Read more Inside First Avenue, the mood was electric, as the roughly 1,500 fans fortunate to make it inside the ultimate Prince farewell party danced the night away, appreciating the special permit secured by the club, which allowed it to stay open until 6 or 7am on Friday.
(19) I'd had my rationales for this, the main one being that I hadn't wanted to impose too zealously nonconformist a lifestyle on my family.
(20) Neofascism is unlike its 1930s predecessor, in that today a global elite of the absurdly wealthy and influential is steering an ideology that wants a shrinking government, falling taxes on high incomes, and authoritarian control over recalcitrants, nonconformists, collective bodies and "losers" in the market society, including the disabled and young unemployed.