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
  • The Sun conjoins Mercury in Virgo and your 2nd House of Money, Values, and Self-Worth, helping practical thinking guide spending, income, comfort, and what your time is worth.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Current remaining performance obligation (cRPO) up 14% in constant currency, which is also 1 percentage point above the July quarter guide.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of guide
Noun
  • The song, famously written by Parton as an emotional farewell to her mentor Porter Wagoner and his show, topped the country chart in 1974.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The Dream Box itself is tribute to her original mentor and uncle, Bill Owens, who has worked tirelessly to preserve the American Chestnut tree.
    — Isabelle Farina, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of mentor
Noun
  • Canada could restrict key exports to the US, such as energy and a key fertilizer ingredient known as potash, said Diamond Isinger, a policy strategist and former special advisor on Canada-US relations to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Ramezanpour has worked with security advisers and European intelligence agencies to relocate staff members across Europe.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of adviser
Noun
  • This time the central crime revolves around a severed finger that is sent to the high school, and a mysterious — potentially nefarious — new teacher captivating their children.
    — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026
  • For example, in 2011 Wisconsin decided that decisions about layoff procedures, class sizes and teacher placements should belong to the employer.
    — David Griffith, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of teacher

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“Cicerone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cicerone. Accessed 31 Aug. 2026.

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