deipnosophist
dyp-NOS-uh-fist, noun
A masterful dinner-table conversationalist.
“Seat the deipnosophist mid-table and the party runs itself.”
Where deipnosophist comes from
From an ancient Greek book of dinner guests talking learnedly for fifteen volumes.
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