Definitions for Chautauqua
ʃəˈtɔ kwə, tʃə-chau·tauqua

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1. Chautauqua

   a meeting, usually held in the summer outdoors or under a temporary tent, providing public lectures combined with entertainment such as concerts and plays. It originated in the village of Chautauqua, N. Y., in 1874, and was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also, a meeting similar to this.

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1. Chautauquanoun

   A place in the state of New York where people go over in the summer for vacation to enjoy artistic events.

2. Chautauquanoun

   A kind of travelling tent-show which used to move across America featuring popular talks.

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1. Chautauqua

   Chautauqua ( shə-TAW-kwə) is an adult education and social movement in the United States that peaked in popularity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s. The Chautauqua brought entertainment and culture for the whole community, with speakers, teachers, musicians, showmen, preachers, and specialists of the day. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt said that Chautauqua is "the most American thing in America".

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1. Chautauqua

   Chautauqua was an adult education movement in the United States, highly popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Named after Chautauqua Lake where the first was held, Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s. The Chautauqua brought entertainment and culture for the whole community, with speakers, teachers, musicians, entertainers, preachers and specialists of the day. Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was quoted as saying that Chautauqua is "the most American thing in America." H.L. Mencken used the word "chautauqua" to refer more generally to a herd of clumsy writers: "When they essay to be jocose, the result is usually simply an elephantine whimsicality, by the chautauqua out of the Atlantic Monthly." [Vintage Mencken, p. 96, ed. Alistair Cooke, 1955]

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1. Chautauqua

   a summer resort on a lake of the name in the W. of New York State, centre of a novel institution, which prescribes a four years' course of private readings, and grants diplomas to those who anywhere achieve it.

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   Daniel

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Chautauqua in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Chautauqua in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Chautauqua in a Sentence

1. Suzanne Nossel:

   PEN America is reeling from shock and horror at the word of a brutal, premeditated attack on our former President and stalwart ally, Sir Salman Rushdie, who was reportedly stabbed multiple times while on stage speaking at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, we can think of no comparable incident of a public attack on a literary writer on American soil.

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References

1. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=Chautauqua
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chautauqua
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Chautauqua
5. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Chautauqua