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chautauqua

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Chau⋅tau⋅qua

[shuh-taw-kwuh, chuh-]
–noun
1. Lake, a lake in SW New York. 18 mi. (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, esp. one of a number meeting in a circuit of communities.
–adjective
5. of or pertaining to a system of education flourishing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, originating at Lake Chautauqua, New York.
6. (usually lowercase) pertaining to a chautauqua: a chautauqua program.
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Chautauqua 
1873, from town in N.Y., a Seneca name, possibly "one has taken out fish there." A Methodist summer colony there featured lectures from 1874.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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