approval If you describe a man as a Renaissance man, you mean that he has a wide range of abilities and interests, especially in the arts and sciences. A man who has broad intellectual interests and is accomplished in areas of both the arts and the sciences. Re.naissance 'woman a man or woman who can do many things well, such as writing and painting, and who knows a lot about many different subjects
a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics 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