GENERALIST
Dictionary entry overview: What does generalist mean? • GENERALIST (noun)
The noun GENERALIST has 1 sense:
1. a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests
Familiarity information: GENERALIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENERALIST (noun)
Meaning:
A modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
generalist; Renaissance man
Context example:
a statistician has to be something of a generalist
Hypernyms ("generalist" is a kind of...):
bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)
Antonym:
specialist (an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning)
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