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renaissance man is a noun meaning "a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for renaissance man come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.