cicerone

noun

Definition of ciceronenext
as in guide

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Recent Examples of cicerone As a cicerone and the founder of beer-tour company LA Beer Hop, Mooney’s path overlapped with the pizza community for years. — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026 Jen Blair, 45, is one of 28 master cicerones, or beer experts, in the world, only five of whom are women. — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025 Here our cicerone stopped and turned back to address us. — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025 Producing full-bodied, low-carb beers can be difficult, but the challenge has inspired innovation, Katherine Benecke, a cicerone at Treadwell Park in New York City, told Fox News Digital. — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2025 The advanced cicerone — a cicerone is like a sommelier, but for beer rather than wine — also writes a Substack about drinking and music, Beer & Soul. — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 13 June 2025 In both her garden and her paintings, color is the cicerone that guides Lauter’s audience through emotional journeys fraught with personal iconography and symbolic meditations on life and mortality. — Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 6 Sep. 2024 Founder and brew master David Reese is the only advanced cicerone in the state and one of only 139 in the world, earning this certification for his advanced knowledge of beer and flavors. — Kelsey Ogletree, Southern Living, 16 Jan. 2024 Dealing with the passion of the artist through the complexity of the man, Cooper inhabits Bernstein and Maestro’s compositions with Nézet-Séguin as his cicerone. Like Maestro Cooper, Nézet-Séguin lost himself within the music of the film and the power of the art form while channeling Bernstein. — A.d. Amorosi, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cicerone
  1. guide
  2. mentor
  3. adviser
  4. teacher
Noun
  • His guide led the group to an area off the Colorado River near Bright Angel Creek.
    — Shayna Jacobs, NBC news, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Upon their arrival in Thailand, Jax and Luce find a guide named John (Tom Brittney) who agrees to shepherd them around the Devil’s Elbow, despite inclement weather that makes the journey even more dangerous.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of guide
Noun
  • In 2025-26, his first full season as hockey operations adviser and mentor, Chára dipped his toe into multiple buckets, including management and coaching.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The license of the firm’s founder and Wang’s mentor, Zhang Kai, was revoked, and he was barred from leaving the country; other lawyers at their firm were suspended from practicing for six months, Wang said.
    — Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of mentor
Noun
  • Michael saw that the adviser had frequently asked for payments in bitcoin, ranging from fifteen to more than a hundred dollars, and that Leah, at the adviser’s request, had provided her financial-account information.
    — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Those fears prompted Zelenskyy adviser Serhii Beskrestnov to say on social media Monday that Ukraine will not go hungry.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of adviser
Noun
  • Last year, Roberts was the sole conservative who voted against letting the administration cancel $65 million in teacher training grants.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The union representing teachers in Ituri province, the epicenter of the outbreak, had called for a delay in restarting classes, but the government pressed ahead.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of teacher

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“Cicerone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cicerone. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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