Cicerone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /t͡ʃɪt͡ʃəˈɹəʊni/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cicerone is a noun meaning (ambitransitive, archaic) To show (somebody) the sights, acting as a tourist guide.
Meaning
(ambitransitive, archaic) To show (somebody) the sights, acting as a tourist guide.
More Meanings
- A guide who accompanies visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest.
Example Sentences
Ultimately their gazes all rested on his cicerone as most powerful member of the group.
East, still doing the cicerone, pointed out all the remarkable characters to Tom as they passed[…]
“First,” advised their cicerone in the matter, Professor Svegli of the University of Pisa, “try to forget the usual picture in two dimensions.”
he was in the act of making his evening plans with the same smelly but nice cicerone in a café-au-lait suit whom he had hired already twice at the same Genoese hotel [...].
Word Forms
- cicerones
- ciceroni
- ciceroning
- ciceroned
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include guide, docent, interpreter, courier, xenagogue, invigilator.
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