/ Thesaurus / R Synonyms of renaissance man Find synonyms for: Noun1. Renaissance man, generalist, scholar, scholarly person, bookman, studentusage: a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests; "a statistician has to be something of a generalist"2. Renaissance man, scholar, scholarly person, bookman, studentusage: a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topicsWordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Related Content Daily Word Quiz: aversion Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language