Definitions for: Cicerone


[n] a guide who conducts and informs sightseers



Webster (1913) Definition: Ci`ce*ro"ne, n.; pl. It. Ciceroni, E. Cicerones.
[It., fr. L. Cicero, the Roman orator. So called from the
ordinary talkativeness of such a guide.]
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.

See Also: guide

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