renaissance man

Noun
  1. A modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests (synset 110539879)
    "a statistician has to be something of a generalist"
    is a type 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
    same as: generalist
  2. A scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics (synset 110539702)
    is a type 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

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