
Renaissance man
/ˌrenəˌsɑːns ˈmæn/
a person with expertise in many fields
Renaissance man in a sentence
“He was a Renaissance man—musician, scientist, and entrepreneur.”
Origin of Renaissance man
From the ideal of the well-rounded Renaissance humanist like Leonardo
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