Bohemia
pronunciation
How to pronounce Bohemia in British English:
UK [bəuˈhi:mjə]
How to pronounce Bohemia in American English:
US [boˈhimiə]
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- Noun:
- a historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic
Word Origin
- Bohemia
- central European kingdom, mid-15c., Beeme, from Middle French Boheme "Bohemia," from Latin Boiohaemum (Tacitus), from Boii, the Celtic people who settled in what is now Bohemia (and were driven from it by the Germanic Marcomans early 1c.; singular Boius, fem. Boia, perhaps literally "warriors") + Proto-Germanic *haimaz "home" (see home (n.)). Attested from 1861 in meaning "community of artists and social Bohemians" or in reference to the district where they live (see bohemian).
Example
- 1. The country is composed of the historic regions of bohemia and moravia , as well as parts of silesia .
- 2. In 1495 the church began selling dispensations at immense cost to butter-eating countries like germany , hungary , bohemia and later france , assuring them that god loves butter as long as you pay for it .
- 3. But by the end of the 19th century a technique invented in bavaria and developed in bohemia arrived in belgium .
- 4. The kingdom of hungary was established in 1000 and the history of hungary was developed in a triangle with that of poland and bohemia .
- 5. The gritty small towns of the sluknov foothills in northern bohemia are a long way from the baroque delights of prague . A simmering social problem is now boiling over into violent clashes between roma ( gypsies ) and locals .