One who has broad general knowledge and skills in several areas.
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One who has broad general knowledge and skills in several areas.
Person with many abilities and interests or whose job description contains many varied duties. Contrasts with Specialist.
A physician whose practice is not oriented in a specific medical specialty but instead covers a variety of medical problems.
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests
Synonym: Renaissance man
Antonym: specialist (meaning #1)
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