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GENERALIST

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• 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.

• GENERALIST (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

"History repeats itself."
(English proverb)
"Liberty has its roots in blood."
(Albanian proverb)
"Opinion comes before the bravery of the braves."
(Arabic proverb)
"Hasty speed is rarely good"
(Dutch proverb)

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Pronunciation of scholar
Meaning of scholarly person
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Pronunciation of bookman

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