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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 | ||
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