Meaning of Cicerone | Babel Free

Definitions

A guide who accompanies visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest.

Equivalents

Examples

“East, still doing the cicerone, pointed out all the remarkable characters to Tom as they passed[…]”

“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 [...].”

“Ultimately their gazes all rested on his cicerone as most powerful member of the group.”

““First,” advised their cicerone in the matter, Professor Svegli of the University of Pisa, “try to forget the usual picture in two dimensions.””

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