English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van "cicerone" is 'n selfstandige naamwoord wat verwys na 'n gids wat inligting oor die geskiedenis en kuns van plekke aan besoekers gee. 'n Cicerone is dikwels kundig oor die kultuur en geskiedenis van 'n spesifieke area, en kan toere lei of kommentaar lewer vir besoekers aan museums, historiese terreine of ander plekke van belang. Die term "cicerone" kom van die Italiaanse woord "Cicerone", wat "gids" of "een wat die weg wys" beteken en is vernoem na die Romeinse staatsman en redenaar Marcus Tullius Cicero, wat bekend was vir sy kennis en welsprekendheid.

Sentence Examples

  1. They had agreed to see the Carnival at Rome that year, and that Franz, who for the last three or four years had inhabited Italy, should act as cicerone to Albert.
  2. The carriage stopped near the Meta Sudans the door was opened, and the young men, eagerly alighting, found themselves opposite a cicerone, who appeared to have sprung up from the ground, so unexpected was his appearance.
  3. I had no convenient cicerone in the pattern of the Utopian books.
  4. The cicerone reclosed the door, and sprang up by the side of the coachman.
  5. Franz and Albert descended, the carriage approached the palace their excellencies stretched their legs along the seats the cicerone sprang into the seat behind.
  6. The result was that when the new-comer left the hotel with the cicerone, a man detached himself from the rest of the idlers, and without having been seen by the traveller, and appearing to excite no attention from the guide, followed the stranger with as much skill as a Parisian police agent would have used.
  7. I thought you were earning a living in Tuscany or Piedmont by acting as facchino or cicerone, and I pitied you sincerely, as I would a child of my own.