Synonyms of renaissance man

Noun


1. Renaissance man, generalist, scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student

usage: 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"

2. Renaissance man, scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student

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

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