Lake, a lake in SW New York. 18 miles (29 km) long.
a village on this lake: summer educational center.
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.
(usually lowercase) any similar assembly, especially one of a number meeting in a circuit of communities.
of or relating to a system of education flourishing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, originating at Lake Chautauqua, New York.
(usually lowercase) pertaining to a chautauqua.
a chautauqua program.
C19: named after Chautauqua, a lake in New York near which such a school was first held
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Gardeners tend to still-green lawns along Chautauqua Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
The sentences must run concurrently because both victims were injured in the same event, Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt said on Friday.
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
We’d evacuated a few years ago, so they knew that once there’s an evacuation order, Chautauqua and Temescal would be backed up.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
He added that he was inspired to go to Chautauqua after seeing a tweet announcing that Mr Rushdie would be visiting.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2025
Mrs. Morton and Roger sat behind them, he with his hands full of the long tickets which were to take them all to Chautauqua and home again.
From Ethel Morton at Chautauqua by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
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
Joni's arrival turns the camp town meeting into a sing-along chautauqua.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some three years later Mr. Cook was on our chautauqua program at Lexington, Kentucky.
From Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures by Bain, George W.
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