bohemian
boh hee mee uhn
- n a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America)
- n a native or inhabitant of Bohemia in the Czech Republic
- n a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life
- a of or relating to Bohemia or its language or people
- s unconventional in especially appearance and behavior
a bohemian life style
- He did a deeply American thing: he took a bohemian subculture and infused it with the hard edged, competitive ethos of capitalism.
- Like Rybakov himself, Sasha Pankratov, the student hero of Arbat, lived in the capital's bohemian Arbat district during the '30s.
- An ardent believer in the virtue of the bourgeois bohemian, Brooks regards the age of the bourgeois-bohemian as the end of history.