Word.ws English Dictionary

deipnosophy

deipnosophy noun: debate or small talk at the dinner table.

Noun

deipnosophy (uncountable)

  1. debate or small talk at the dinner table

Origin of deipnosophy

From deipno- (“dinner-”) + -sophy.

Questions about deipnosophy

What does deipnosophy mean?
Deipnosophy means debate or small talk at the dinner table.
What part of speech is deipnosophy?
Deipnosophy is a noun.

Words near deipnosophy in the dictionary

  1. deipno-
  2. deipnophobia
  3. deipnosophist
  4. deipnosophistry
  5. deipnosophists
  6. deipnosophy
  7. deir
  8. Deir ez-Zor
  9. Deira
  10. Deiran
  11. Deirans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deipnosophy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “deipnosophy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/deipnosophy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.