bohemians
Free-spirited creatives
Bohemians are people who live unconventional lives, often artists, writers, or musicians who reject mainstream values and social norms in favor of creative freedom and nonconformity: The café attracted bohemians and intellectuals.
The term evokes a lifestyle of artistic pursuit over material comfort, often associated with urban neighborhoods like Greenwich Village or Montmartre. (Capitalized Bohemians are people from Bohemia.)
Fifties countercultural rebels
- hippiesCountercultural youth of the sixties
- outsidersThose not belonging
- rebelsArmed opposition fighters
- radicalsAdvocates for fundamental change
dissidents · dropouts · misfits · eccentrics · iconoclasts · antiestablishment · subversives · anarchists
Makers of creative works
- writersText composition professionals
- poetsComposers of verse
- paintersThose who apply pigment
- creativesPeople who produce original work
musicians · sculptors · novelists · playwrights · free spirits · dreamers · visionaries · aesthetes
Departing from standard practice
- vagabondHomeless, aimless wanderer
- wandererRootless, roving person
- nomadHomeless wanderer by choice
- gypsyItinerant free spirit
drifter · countercultural · alternative · dropout · commune · garret · atelier · coffeehouse
Hilltop artists' district in Paris
- Latin QuarterParisian intellectual district
- Left BankParis's intellectual quarter
- Moulin RougeHistoric Parisian cabaret
- Toulouse-LautrecFin-de-siècle lithographer
Modigliani · Picasso · Hemingway · expatriates · cafes · cabarets · salons · garrets
beatniks
Fifties countercultural rebels
- hippiesCountercultural youth of the sixties
- outsidersThose not belonging
- rebelsArmed opposition fighters
radicals · dissidents · dropouts · misfits · eccentrics · iconoclasts · antiestablishment · subversives · anarchists · idealists
artists
Makers of creative works
creatives · musicians · sculptors · novelists · playwrights · free spirits · dreamers · visionaries · aesthetes · romantics
unconventional
Departing from standard practice
gypsy · drifter · countercultural · alternative · dropout · commune · garret · atelier · coffeehouse · cabaret
Montmartre
Hilltop artists' district in Paris
- Latin QuarterParisian intellectual district
- Left BankParis's intellectual quarter
- Moulin RougeHistoric Parisian cabaret
Toulouse-Lautrec · Modigliani · Picasso · Hemingway · expatriates · cafes · cabarets · salons · garrets · studios
Czech
Of Prague's homeland
- PragueCzech Republic's chief city
- CzechiaCentral European state
- Central EuropeanFrom the continent's middle
Moravian · Silesian · Habsburg · Wenceslas · Kafka · pilsner · medieval · kingdom · Slavic · Austrian
- Nonconformistsnonconformist, rebels, rebel, misfits, misfit
- Belle EpoqueMoulin Rouge, cancan, can-can, absinthe, Art Nouveau
- countercultureflower power, flower children, free love, hippie communes, Summer of Love
- Greenwich VillageWashington Square Park, Christopher Street, West Village, Washington Square, Stonewall Inn
- MontmartreSacre-Coeur, Moulin Rouge, street artists, basilica, hill
- cafe societysocialites, glitterati, bon vivants, jet setters, debutantes
bohemiansconformists
Those obeying social norms
squares · traditionalists · conservatives · conventionalists · suburbanites
bohemianscareerists
Advancement-obsessed professionals
materialists · yuppies · strivers · businesspeople · professionals
bohemiansbourgeoisie
Capitalist ownership class
burghers · philistines · petty bourgeoisie · high society · pillars of society
- Bohemian RhapsodyQueen's operatic rock suite
- bohemian lifeUnconventional artistic lifestyle
- bohemian styleArtistic, nonconformist aesthetic approach
- bohemian lifestyleArtistic life rejecting convention
- bohemian dressLoose artistic flowing garment
- bohemian cultureNonconformist artistic way of living