Akademik

1. a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests

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a statistician has to be something of a generalist

2. a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics

noun, pl ⋯ men [count]

: a man who is interested in and knows a lot about many things

Reˌnaissance ˈman 7 [Renaissance man] noun

a person who is good at a lot of things and has a lot of interests, especially writing and painting