BOHEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bohemia mean? 

• BOHEMIA (noun)
  The noun BOHEMIA has 2 senses:

1. a historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic

2. a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style

  Familiarity information: BOHEMIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOHEMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Derivation:

Bohemian (of or relating to Bohemia or its language or people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("bohemia" is a kind of...):

camp; clique; coterie; ingroup; inner circle; pack (an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose)

Derivation:

bohemian (unconventional in especially appearance and behavior)

 Context examples 

“And bring with him a flask of holy water,” added the knight of Bohemia.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was I who brought about the separation between Irene Adler and the late King of Bohemia when your cousin Heinrich was the Imperial Envoy.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“What a woman—oh, what a woman!” cried the King of Bohemia, when we had all three read this epistle.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“These folk here,” said the knight of Bohemia, “they do not seem too well fed.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“The paper was made in Bohemia,” I said.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beneath sat Du Guesclin and Sir Nigel, with Sir Amory Monticourt, of the order of the Hospitallers, and Sir Otto Harnit, a wandering knight from the kingdom of Bohemia.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have heard that there are no English among them, but that they are from France, Italy and Bohemia.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Your Majesty had not spoken before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and hereditary King of Bohemia.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed into the room.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)