RENAISSANCE MAN

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• RENAISSANCE MAN (noun)
  The noun RENAISSANCE MAN has 2 senses:

1. a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests

2. a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics

  Familiarity information: RENAISSANCE MAN used as a noun is rare.

• RENAISSANCE MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

generalist; Renaissance man

Context example:

a statistician has to be something of a generalist

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 scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics

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)