chautauqua
/ʃəˈtɔːkwə/
chautauqua is the alternative form of Chautauqua.
Proper noun capitalized: Chautauqua
Chautauqua
- A town and lake resort community in Chautauqua County, New York.
Noun capitalized: Chautauqua
Chautauqua (plural Chautauquas)
- A kind of travelling tent-show which used to move across America featuring popular talks.
- 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...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
Forms of chautauqua
| plural | chautauquas |
|---|---|
| plural | Chautauquas |
| alternative form | chautauqua |
Origin of chautauqua
From Erie [Term?].
Words formed from chautauqua
Questions about chautauqua
- What does chautauqua mean?
- Chautauqua means a town and lake resort community in Chautauqua County, New York.
- What is chautauqua the alternative form of?
- Chautauqua is the alternative form of Chautauqua.
- What part of speech is chautauqua?
- Chautauqua can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce chautauqua?
- Chautauqua is pronounced /ʃəˈtɔːkwə/.
Words near chautauqua in the dictionary
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