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BOHEMIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
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)
Context examples:
And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman’s wit.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Ah,” said he, “I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is in a German-speaking country—in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. ‘Remarkable as being the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous glass-factories and paper-mills.’ Ha, ha, my boy, what do you make of that?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Once only had I known him to fail, in the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle indeed which he could not unravel.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are outside the pale of the law.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
