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BOHEME

Date "BOHEME" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1887. (references)

"BOHEME" is a common misspelling or typo for: bohemia, bohemian.


Specialty Definition: BOHEME

DomainDefinition

Literature

Boheme (La). A Bohemian, that is, one living on his wits, such as a penny-a-liner, journalist, politician, artist, dancer, or in fact any chevalier of unsettled habits and no settled home. From the French, Bohémien, a gipsy.
Une maison de Bohême means a house where no regularity is observed, but all things are at sixes and sevens. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BOHEME

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
boboEnglishBourgeois bohemeN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: BOHEME

Non-English Usage: "BOHEME" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (Bohemia), German (bohemian world).

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Modern Usage: BOHEME

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Boheme (1974)

Cafe Boheme (1939)

Zauber der Boheme (1937)

La Boheme (1926)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BOHEME

DomainTitle

Books

  • LA Boheme (The Black Dog Opera Library) (reference)

  • Aurelia: Un Roman a Faire: Projet de Roman Epistolaire; Les Nuits D'Octobre; Petits Chateaux de Boheme; Pandora; Promenades Et (reference)

  • Les\Filles du Feu Petits Chateux de Boheme (reference)

  • Scenes de La Vie de Boheme (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Puccini - La Boheme / Baz Luhrmann, The Australian Opera (2002 Edition) (reference)

  • La Vie De Boheme (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: BOHEME

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Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Studio La Boheme, dollhouse miniature, Rubenstein, Oct. 25, 1935. Credit: Library of Congress.

Debs prepare for Bal Boheme. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: BOHEME

"BOHEME" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "BOHEME" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)85.71%6143,867
Noun (singular)14.29%1339,140
                    Total100.00%7N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BOHEME

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

la boheme

442

puccini la boheme

6

la boheme on broadway

68

boheme broadway la theater

6

boheme

27

la boheme poster

5

hotel boheme san francisco

23

la boheme libretto

5

montblanc boheme

14

boheme broadway

4

la boheme opera

13

boheme leather montblanc

4

la boheme ticket

11

angeles boheme la los restaurant

4

boheme la restaurant

11

baz boheme la luhrmann

3

boheme la lyrics vie

10

boheme la story

3

mont blanc boheme

10

la boheme on broadway ticket

3

boheme la lyrics

10

baz luhrmanns la boheme

3

la vie boheme

10

blanc bleu boheme mont

3

boheme denver la

8

baz boheme forum la luhrmann

3

boheme cafe la

8

la boheme nyc

3

boheme la synopsis

8

baz boheme la luhrman

3

hotel boheme

7

boheme dvd la

3

boheme la new york

7

puccinis la boheme

2

boheme la musical

7

boheme broadway la review

2

boheme la review

6

boheme central la park

2

baz boheme la

6

boheme la lyrics rent vie

2

boheme de olivier

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BOHEME

Language Translations for "BOHEME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

bourgeois-bohème (bobo, bourgeois boheme), bobo (bobo, Bohemian Bourgeois, bourgeois boheme). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ohemebay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BOHEME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-h-m-o"

-2 letters: hebe, heme, home.

-3 letters: bee, eme, hem, hob, hoe, mho, mob, obe, ohm.

-4 letters: be, bo, eh, em, he, hm, ho, me, mo, oe, oh, om.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-h-m-o"
 

+2 letters: behemoth, boehmite, homebred, homebrew.

 

+3 letters: behemoths, boehmites, homebreds, homebrews.

 

+4 letters: besmoothed, blithesome, bothersome, embouchure, homebodies, homeoboxes, rhabdomere, semihoboes.

 

+5 letters: beachcombed, beachcomber, chemisorbed, debouchment, embouchures, embryophyte, honeycombed, rhabdomeres, theobromine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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