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noun
A guide who accompanies visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To show (somebody) the sights, acting as a tourist guide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, archaic
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noun
a guide who conducts and informs sightseers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: guide
History
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.
Across languages
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