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Renaissance man definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests; "a statistician has to be something of a generalist" [syn: Renaissance man, generalist] [ant: specialiser, specialist, specializer]
2: a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1906 a person who has wide interests and is expert in several areas

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(Renaissance men) If you describe a man as a Renaissance man, you mean that he has a wide range of abilities and interests, especially in the arts and sciences. N-COUNT [approval]