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Chautauqua orig. and chiefly U.S.|tʃɔːˈtɔːkwə|
Also chautauqua.
[The name of a county and lake in the southwestern part of the state of New York.]
1. Used esp. attrib. to designate a system of home study originating with summer schools held at Chautauqua, or the organization resulting from this, established by charter in 1871.
1873(title) The Chautauqua Lake Journal, published for the Chautauqua Lake Camp-Meeting Association. 1879Harper's Mag. Aug. 357/2 By far the most valuable fruit of the Chautauqua plan..will come from the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. 1886J. H. Vincent Chautauqua Movement 40 Meetings of the Chautauqua type. Ibid., The camp-meeting period of Chautauqua exercises. 1926Even. Standard 12 July 3/2, I once spent part of a month addressing chautauqua gatherings in a part of New York State.
2. Applied to similar educational meetings of the summer-school type; also transf.
1884Dakota Mission Conf. of Methodist Episc. Ch. 5 The Great Chautauqua of the West, Big Stone Lake, Dakota. 1920S. Lewis Main St. 236 She turned to the Chautauqua as she had turned to the dramatic association. 1931Economist 1 Aug. 214/1 The Chequers conversations proved to be the first of a series of statesmen's chatauquas in the capitals of Europe. 1965M. Echard I met Murder (1967) xxi. 161 The rector had been holding forth..on the subject of summer chatauqas and the threat they posed to church attendances.
Hence Chauˈtauquan a. and n.
1878in J. H. Vincent Chautauqua Movement (1886) 80 Let every Chautauquan..read Dr. Vincent's lecture. 1909Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1947Newsweek 2 June 58/2 McConnell was an ex-Chautauquan. |