Chautauqua

See also: chautauqua

English

Etymology

From Erie [Term?].

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃəˈtɔːkwə/, IPA^(key): /ʃəˈtækwə/

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Proper noun

Chautauqua

1. A town and lake resort community in Chautauqua County, New York.

Noun

Chautauqua (plural Chautauquas)

1. (historical) A kind of travelling tent-show which used to move across America featuring popular talks.
   • 1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, chapter 1, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN, part I, page 15:

     What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua—that's the only name I can think of for it—like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer.

Alternative forms

• chautauqua

Derived terms

• Chautauqua County
• Chautauqua system

Further reading

• Chautauqua on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Robert M. Pirsig´s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and the term ´Chautauqua´.
• Chautauqua Institution