cicerone Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a guide who conducts and informs sightseers

WordNet

Ci`ce*ro"ne noun
Etymology
It., fr. L. Cicero, the Roman orator. So called from the ordinary talkativeness of such a guide.
Wordforms
plural It Ciceroni E Cicerones
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913