scholar vs Renaissance man

Renaissance man vs scholar

scholar and Renaissance man both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scholar	Yes	No	No	No
Renaissance man	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Renaissance man is a hyponym of scholar; that is, Renaissance man is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than scholar:

scholar: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
Renaissance man: a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics

Other hyponyms of scholar include academician, schoolman, alum, grad, graduate, Arabist, bibliographer, bibliophile, book lover, booklover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, doctor, Dr., goliard, historian, historiographer, humanist, initiate, learned person, pundit, savant, Islamist, licentiate, Masorete, Masorite, Massorete, master, mujtihad, musicologist, bookworm, pedant, scholastic, philomath, philosopher, post doc, postdoc, reader, generalist, salutatorian, salutatory speaker, scholiast, medieval Schoolman, Schoolman, Shakespearean, Shakespearian, Sinologist, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer, valedictorian, valedictory speaker, Vedist.

scholar (noun)	Renaissance man (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics
someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs	a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests
a student who holds a scholarship

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