Chautauqua
noun
Lake, a lake in SW New York. 18 miles (29 km) long.
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chautauquanoun(in the US, formerly) a summer school or educational meeting held in the summer
Chautauqua
American
[shuh-taw-kwuh, chuh-]
/ ʃəˈtɔ kwə, tʃə- /
noun
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Lake, a lake in SW New York. 18 miles (29 km) long.
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a village on this lake: summer educational center.
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an annual educational meeting, originating in this village in 1874, providing public lectures, concerts, and dramatic performances during the summer months, usually in an outdoor setting.
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(usually lowercase) any similar assembly, especially one of a number meeting in a circuit of communities.
adjective
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of or relating to a system of education flourishing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, originating at Lake Chautauqua, New York.
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(usually lowercase) pertaining to a chautauqua.
a chautauqua program.
chautauqua
British
/ ʃəˈtɔːkwə /
noun
Etymology
Origin of chautauqua
C19: named after Chautauqua, a lake in New York near which such a school was first held
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The lead story in the first edition, according to the newspaper’s website, was about $1 million being spent to pave a stretch of modern-day Chautauqua Boulevard and to plant trees near Santa Monica Canyon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
The Eames House is a raised steel-and-glass structure built into a hillside on the edge of a sun-dappled meadow in a eucalyptus grove on North Chautauqua Boulevard, with a view of the Pacific Ocean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025
News of his latest work comes a year after Sir Salman released an autobiographical account of what happened when he was stabbed on stage during an event at the Chautauqua Institution.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2025
Mr Rushdie, 77, was due to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institute in August 2022, where he was going to discuss how the US is a safe haven for exiled writers.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2025
Fourteen miles through this pretty section of Erie and Chautauqua counties brought me to Dunkirk, where I lectured at Columbus Hall in the evening, and was introduced to my audience by Rev. J. A. Kummer.
From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Willard W. Glazier
According to some historians, the movement peaked around 1915, when 12,000 communities had hosted a chautauqua.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022
Eventually, the word chautauqua became a generic term to describe a range of educational events in rural areas.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022
He took out after U.S. criticism, which he said "smells of the pulpit, the chautauqua, the schoolroom."
From Time Magazine Archive
Culver soon zestfully launched a chautauqua, wound up with a military academy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Davidson, superintendent of the assembly, requested me to call at the hotel and inform our distinguished visitor of his hour and see to his reaching the chautauqua grounds.
From Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures by George W. Bain
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