Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun renaissance_man

2 senses of renaissance man

Sense 1
Renaissance man, generalist -- (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")
       => scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student -- (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)

Sense 2
Renaissance man -- (a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics)
       => scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student -- (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)