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| 1. | [ noun ] a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests | |
| Synonyms: | generalist | |
| Examples: | "a statistician has to be something of a generalist" |
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| Related terms: | specialist scholar | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (education) a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics | |
| Related terms: | scholar | |
