NOUN
- a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics
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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
How To Use Renaissance man In A Sentence
- Dr Sunderman was a Renaissance man with accomplishments as a physician, clinical scientist, toxicologist, author, editor, violinist, poet, and photographer.
- The musical Renaissance man has had, by his own accounting, seven often-simultaneous careers: As a French hornist, he got his first job with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at age 17 and performed on Miles Davis's seminal "Birth of the Cool" recordings. Man of Many Music Careers
- Pepper is a true renaissance man: in addition to showing Hubert, he runs a fly-fishing store and performs as a ventriloquist.
- His elegant, idealized compositions and use of Antique sources epitomize Renaissance manuscript illustration and were an essential element of the finest Florentine production in the decades around 1500.
- Ben Franklin drubs Thomas Jefferson in the race to be our nation's foremost Renaissance man.
- Will it be a renaissance Man? Times, Sunday Times
- The next weeks will show whether he is a spent force or renaissance man. Times, Sunday Times
- Intellectual contemplation and the raw physicality of the athlete happily coexist in Renaissance man.
- The story of the renaissance man. Times, Sunday Times
- A billycock is a beautiful object (it may be eagerly urged), but it is not in the same style of architecture as Ely Cathedral; it is a dome, a small rococo dome in the Renaissance manner, and does not go with the pointed arches that assault heaven like spears. Alarms and Discursions
