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- Dictionarycicerone/ˌtʃɪtʃəˈrəʊni/
noun
- 1. a guide who gives information about places of interest to sightseers.
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Cicerone is an old term for a guide who conducts visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest. The word is presumably taken from Marcus Tullius Cicero, as a type of learning and eloquence. The Oxford English Dictionary finds recorded examples of the use earlier in English than Italian, the earliest quotation... Wikipedia