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• cicero
  cicero

  noun

  a Continental unit of measurement for type, equal to 12 Didot points, or 0.178 inch (4.5 millimeters), roughly comparable to a pica.
• Cicero
  Cicero

  noun

  Marcus Tullius Tully, 106–43 b.c., Roman statesman, orator, and writer.

cicero

¹ American  

[sis-uh-roh] / ˈsɪs əˌroʊ /

noun

Printing.

ciceros plural

1. a Continental unit of measurement for type, equal to 12 Didot points, or 0.178 inch (4.5 millimeters), roughly comparable to a pica.

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Cicero ² American  

[sis-uh-roh] / ˈsɪs əˌroʊ /

noun

1. Marcus Tullius Tully, 106–43 b.c., Roman statesman, orator, and writer.

2. a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.

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Cicero ¹ British  

/ ˈsɪsəˌrəʊ /

noun

1. Formerly known in English as: Tully.  Marcus Tullius (ˈmɑːkəs ˈtʌlɪəs). 106–43 _bc , Roman consul, orator, and writer. He foiled Catiline's conspiracy (63) and was killed by Mark Antony's agents after he denounced Antony in the Philippics. His writings are regarded as a model of Latin prose

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cicero ² British  

/ ˈsɪsəˌrəʊ /

noun

1. a measure for type that is somewhat larger than the pica

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Cicero Cultural  

1. An orator, writer, and statesman of ancient Rome. His many speeches to the Roman Senate are famous for their rhetorical techniques and their ornate style.

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Inflected Forms

noun

• ciceros
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cicero

Named after the type cast for a 15th-century edition of Cicero's De Oratore

Example Sentences

Had Kapp been captured, Mr. Talty relates, “one thing would have been clear to the Germans: Cicero was not a double agent” and they could act on what he told them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

To Cicero it meant “rules or strictures”; following him, Mr. Appiah writes, St. Augustine observed that it refers not only to worship but to “the observance of duties in human relationships.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Alerts about raids are popping up regularly online as activist groups warn residents about sweeps in Latino-heavy neighborhoods like Cicero, Little Village and Pilsen.

From Barron's • Oct. 11, 2025

The third piece of the Cicero platform is to expand civil commitment laws, which permit the involuntary hospitalization or institutionalization of people with mental illnesses.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2025

The greatest of the Roman orators, Cicero was known for his long and carefully plotted sentences that did not reveal their full meaning until the very last word.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood