cicerone
English
Etymology
From Italian cicerone, from Latin Cicero, the Roman orator.
Pronunciation
Noun
cicerone (plural ciceroni)
- A guide who shows people around tourist sights.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 3:
- 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 [...].
- 1987, Michael Brodsky, Xman, p. 360:
- Ultimately their gazes all rested on his cicerone as most powerful member of the group.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 279:
- “First,” advised their cicerone in the matter, Professor Svegli of the University of Pisa, “try to forget the usual picture in two dimensions.”
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 3:
Translations
guide