Chautauqua

[shuh-taw-kwuh, chuh-]

noun

1. Lake, a lake in SW New York. 18 miles (29 km) long.

2. a village on this lake: summer educational center.

3. 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.

4. (usually lowercase),  any similar assembly, especially one of a number meeting in a circuit of communities.

adjective

1. of or relating to a system of education flourishing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, originating at Lake Chautauqua, New York.

2. (usually lowercase),  pertaining to a chautauqua.

   a chautauqua program.

chautauqua

/ ʃəˈtɔːkwə /

noun

1. (in the US, formerly) a summer school or educational meeting held in the summer

Word History and Origins

Origin of chautauqua¹

C19: named after Chautauqua, a lake in New York near which such a school was first held

Example Sentences

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.

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The Chautauqua movement came to Pacific Palisades a century ago with a vision of healthy living.

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The soon-to-reopen section of highway, which spans from Chautauqua Boulevard just north of Santa Monica to Sweetwater Canyon Drive in Malibu will operate two lanes of traffic in both directions, according to a CalTrans document.

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The sentences must run concurrently because both victims were injured in the same event, Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt said on Friday.

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We’d evacuated a few years ago, so they knew that once there’s an evacuation order, Chautauqua and Temescal would be backed up.

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