noun
1. a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests
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a statistician has to be something of a generalist
• Syn: ↑generalist
• Ant: ↑specialist (for: ↑generalist)
• Hypernyms: ↑scholar, ↑scholarly person, ↑bookman, ↑student
2. a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics
• Hypernyms: ↑scholar, ↑scholarly person, ↑bookman, ↑student
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noun, pl ⋯ men [count]
: a man who is interested in and knows a lot about many things
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a person who is good at a lot of things and has a lot of interests, especially writing and painting
Useful english dictionary. 2012.