cicerone
Americannoun
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cicerones,
plural
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ciceroni
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cicerone
1720–30; Italian < Latin Cicerōnem, accusative of Cicerō Cicero, the guide being thought of as having the knowledge and eloquence of Cicero
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A surprising glimpse, a quarter-century into the millennium: The reassuring figure of the Anglican clergyman—enthusiast; amateur; generous of spirit, perhaps to a fault—acting cicerone among a dozen churches he’s identified as “buildings that made Christianity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
He brushed down his sharp checked blazer and entered, greeting Naomi Hample, an Argosy owner and autograph cicerone.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2019
A certified cicerone, co-owner Chris Elford also helped start the great beer joint Proletariat in New York’s East Village.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2016
So I called on a friend I will call Cicero to be my cicerone.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016
The princess acted as my cicerone during the day, and she laughed heartily on seeing me now and then unable to retain my balance on the slippery ice.
From The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales by R. Rice Davies
For newcomers to Holy Mountain, its lineup is a good primer on what many cicerones consider to be one of the best breweries in the Northwest, if not the entire West Coast.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
Many, many times I've wondered what it would be like to go A group of foreign correspondents with Nazi cicerones last week completed a 2,500-mile tour of occupied Ukraine.
From Time Magazine Archive
The elephant had gone to take his place in the triumphal entry when Emmy Lou and her four cicerones, in their progress through the animal tent before the program, reached his roped-in inclosure.
From Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress by George Madden Martin
Nor must the help of one of the cathedral cicerones be overlooked, in spite of his desire to remain anonymous; for his knowledge of the building served to correct several mistakes in the first edition.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum by Gleeson White
Not long ago, during a rather stormy, wet day, I happened to notice several of these cicerones hiding in a doorway of one of the palaces, looking most disconsolate.
From The Art of the Exposition by Eugen Neuhaus
The ciceroni and books mention twelve other visitations, several of which are known only by name.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
My sons, who were our stewards and ciceroni, had ordered a basket of provisions to be brought by the carriage, that we might dine au frais near the monuments, the objects of our visit.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste
There were clamorous beggars at all the sculptured portals, and bait for beggars, in abundance, trailing in and out of them under convoy of loquacious ciceroni.
From Italian Hours by Henry James
The eyes of the stranger lighted on her, and his voice laughed in mellow music to his companions and ciceroni.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
In this respect they are no worse than the other whole tribe of ciceroni, who assuredly are among the greatest bores that necessity imposes.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
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