1. 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 • Syn: generalist • Ant: specialist (for: generalist) • Hypernyms: scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student 2. a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics • Hypernyms: scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student