What is the meaning of Renaissance man?

noun

  • A modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests.
    • usage: "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. .
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