About The Word Cicerone
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Cicerone
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What's The Definition Of Cicerone?
[n] a guide who conducts and informs sightseers
Synonyms | Synonyms for Cicerone: Related Terms | Find terms related to Cicerone: See Also | guide Cicerone In Webster's Dictionary \Ci`ce*ro"ne\, n.; pl. It. {Ciceroni}, E. {Cicerones}.
[It., fr. L. Cicero, the Roman orator. So called from the
ordinary talkativeness of such a guide.]
One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.
Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers
about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is
termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero.
--Trench.
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