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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cicerone \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cicerone n : a guide who conducts and informs sightseers
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