Associations to the word «Deipnosophist»

Wiktionary

DEIPNOSOPHIST, noun. A master of the art of dining, particularly learned conversation in the manner of Athenaeus's characters.

Dictionary definition

DEIPNOSOPHIST, noun. Someone skilled at informal chitchat.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne