Chautauqua

[ shuh-taw-kwuh, chuh- ]

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noun

Lake, a lake in SW New York. 18 miles (29 km) long.
a village on this lake: summer educational center.
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.
(usually lowercase) any similar assembly, especially one of a number meeting in a circuit of communities.

adjective

of or relating to a system of education flourishing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, originating at Lake Chautauqua, New York.
(usually lowercase) pertaining to a chautauqua:
a chautauqua program.

chautauqua

/ ʃəˈ��ɔː��ə /

noun

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Chautauqua¹

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

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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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By the end of May, Caltrans said it expects to reopen a wider swath of the coastal highway, from Chautauqua Boulevard in Pacific Palisades to Carbon Beach Terrace in Malibu, to regular traffic.

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News of his latest work comes a year after Sir Salman released an autobiographical account of what happened when he was stabbed on stage during an event at the Chautauqua Institution.

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The jury's guilty verdict came after a two-week trial in Chautauqua County Court in western New York state, near where Matar stabbed Rushdie in August 2022 as he was delivering a lecture.

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During the trial, Sir Salman recalled how he had been sitting on stage at the historic Chautauqua Institute when he noticed a person rushing at him from his right-hand side.

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