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
Ms. Mion said she finds it reassuring to know that, when the time comes for Edoardo to join in the family business, he can rely on his father as a cicerone.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2022
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
Sometimes the captain's wife is cicerone and hostess.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge
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
He was the most discreet and profitable of cicerones, with a real talent for making himself useful to nice people.
From Miss Bretherton by Mrs. Humphry Ward
M. Morrel turned to the cicerones, who were waiting in silent bewilderment.
From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg
At last one of the cicerones managed to explain that they had seen the maniac!
From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg
The men alone interested me; I abhorred remarkable monuments, celebrated collections, and ciceroni; the Galerie Verte of Dresden almost drove me mad.
From Annouchka A Tale by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
But in walking about the museum with Mr. Bradshaw, he was the most brilliant of ciceroni.
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
I have a traveler's dislike to officious ciceroni, and did not altogether like the garb of the applicant.
From Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans by Sherwin Cody
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
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
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