English noun: Renaissance man | |||
1. | Renaissance man (person) a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests | ||
Samples | A statistician has to be something of a generalist. | ||
Synonyms | generalist | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student | ||
Antonyms | specialiser, specialist, specializer | ||
2. | Renaissance man (person) a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student | ||