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Definition
a scholar during the Renaissance who was an expert in many fields of study (more common then because there was less to know)or:
someone with broad intellectual interests and accomplishments
- She describes him as a Renaissance man and the most interesting person she's met.
- A Renaissance man of the plains, he is a farmer, welder, businessman, machinist, ace mechanic, commodities speculator, licensed airplane pilot, computer programmer, electronics troubleshooter, video-game repairman.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- "I prefer the term renaissance man," Clyde said as he picked up his magazine again, which, I saw now, was a copy of Gourmet.Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride
- The ideal became what we call the Renaissance man, a man of universal genius embracing all aspects of life, art, and science.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- Every mode of violent death available to Renaissance man, including a lye pit, land mines, a trained falcon with envenom'd talons, is employed.Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
- He was the classic Renaissance man: he spoke four languages, spent a year studying at the London School of Economics, and had paid his way through school with a baseball scholarship.Nicholas Sparks -- True Believer
- One would have to be a Renaissance man of letters, a verbal dandy, a Gongorist, a Marinist, a fop of the estilo culto, to endow the disciplines of reading and writing with such exaggerated educational importance and imagine that intellectual night reigned where such skills were lacking.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- So Luther was also a typical Renaissance man?Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- But enough about the boldness of Renaissance man.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
Renaissance man = someone with broad interests and accomplishments
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