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renaissance man
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Noun renaissance man has 2 senses
- renaissance man(n = noun.person) 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" is a kind of bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student
- renaissance man(n = noun.person) Array - a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics; Array is a kind of bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student
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