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 Kindreds’ flagship, Kindred, also returned to the guide despite a five-month closure for renovations.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Keep scrolling to shop our ultimate Thanksgiving hosting guide, featuring cooking essentials, entertaining must haves, table decor and more.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of guide
Noun
  • The fact that Haslem became a mentor for Adebayo and developed a close friendship with him during their six seasons as Heat teammates will make the moment especially meaningful.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026
  • In London, Yeats tried to keep Crowley out of the upper echelons of Golden Dawn, but Mathers, who had served as a mentor to Crowley and who was based in Paris by then, was willing to initiate him into the inner order, the documentary said.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of mentor
Noun
  • Gold medalist Lauryn Williams is proof that not every financial adviser has your best interests in mind.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Serhii Beskrestnov, a defense technology adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said long-standing restrictions on the civilian system in Ukraine made such offensive use impossible.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of adviser
Noun
  • All four judges are former students or teachers at the College of Magic.
    — Julie Bourdin, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Our teacher had talked about it since the first day, and we were supposed to work on it all year.
    — Souvankham Thammavongsa, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of teacher

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“Cicerone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cicerone. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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