renaissance man

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) - a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics;
is a kind of bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student