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generalist is a noun meaning "a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for generalist come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.