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deip⋅nos⋅o⋅phist
[dahyp-nos-uh-fist] 
–noun
| a person who is an adept conversationalist at table. |
Origin:
1650–60; after a literary work by Athenaeus, Deipnosophist
s, an expert in affairs of the kitchen, equiv. to Gk deîpno(n) meal + sophists sophist 
1650–60; after a literary work by Athenaeus, Deipnosophist
s, an expert in affairs of the kitchen, equiv. to Gk deîpno(n) meal + sophists sophist
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Deipnosophist
Deip*nos"o*phist\, n. [Gr. deipnosofisth`s; dei^pnon a meal + sofisth`s a wise man, sophist.] One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.
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