Definitions for renaissance man
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Ren′aissance man`(n.)
a man knowledgeable or proficient in more than one field.
Princeton's WordNet
Renaissance man, generalist(noun)
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"
Renaissance man(noun)
a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics
Wiktionary
renaissance man(Noun)
a man with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
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