Ci'ce-rō'ne, n.

Ci'ce-rō'ne (chē-che-rō'ne, or sĭs-e-rō'ne), n. [It. Cicerone, equivalent to Lat. Cicero, the Roman orator; so called from the ordinary talkativeness of such a guide.] One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place.

Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers about their picture galleries, palaces, or ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a Cicerone, or Cicero. Trench.