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cicerone

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8 lettersPronunciation /t͡ʃɪt͡ʃəˈɹəʊni/Part of speech nounSorted cceeinorStarts with CEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a guide who conducts and informs sightseers

Word origin

1726, from Italian cicerone (surface analysis cicero + -one (augmentative)), from Latin Cicerōnem, form of Cicerō, agnomen of Marcus Tullius Cicero), the Roman orator, from cicer (“chickpea”) from Proto-Indo-European *ḱiker- (“pea”). Possibly humorous reference to loquaciousness of guides.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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