CICERONE

cicerone

(noun) a guide who conducts and informs sightseers

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

cicerone (plural cicerones or ciceroni)

A guide who shows people around tourist sights.

Verb

cicerone (third-person singular simple present cicerones, present participle ciceroning, simple past and past participle ciceroned)

(ambitransitive, archaic) To show (somebody) the sights, acting as a tourist guide.

Anagrams

• croceine

Source: Wiktionary


Ci`ce*ro"ne, n.; pl. It. Ciceroni, E. Cicerones. Etym: [It., fr. L. Cicero, the Roman orator. So called from the ordinary talkativeness of such a guide.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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