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RENAISSANCE MAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Renaissance man" is a kind of...):
bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests
Example:
a statistician has to be something of a generalist
Synonyms:
generalist; Renaissance man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Renaissance man" is a kind of...):
bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)
