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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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• ciceros
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cicero

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

Example Sentences

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cicero Cicero

O sir! if your leisure is now, as it were, unoccupied, I should be most happy to be your cicero.

From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

Paul Webster, a senior fellow at the Cicero Institute and executive director of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Dr Øivind Hodnebrog, a principal researcher at Cicero, the Norwegian climate research institute, has studied how falling aerosol pollution affects the climate.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Cicero also supports Utah’s plan to create a remote, government-run facility that will hold up to 1,300 people experiencing homelessness.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026

We know Augustine in a way that we do no other ancient individual except perhaps Cicero, the Roman orator of the late Republic whose writings were required texts for centuries of schoolboys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Cicero ends with a final address to Catiline, and then with a contrastive apostrophe to Jupiter—effectively putting Catiline’s decision to depart under the compulsion of a God.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith