Renaissance men

noun

plural of Renaissance man
as in polymaths

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  1. polymaths
  2. intellects
  3. brains
  4. intellectuals
  5. thinkers
  6. savants
  7. wizards
  8. sages
Noun
  • Leonardo was one of history’s greatest polymaths, filling notebooks with designs across a range of disciplines, including flying machines that wouldn't be realized for centuries.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 June 2026
  • Private Money, Public Breakthroughs To call Saad Bhamla and his seven co-recipients polymaths is more than flattery.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Definition of polymaths
Noun
  • Women are compelled to suppress their desires, intellects, and emotions in Gilead.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • While the likes of Philo and Trotter have expanded upon the idea by prioritizing people whose intellects align with their brand values, Jacquemus takes it to another level.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026
Definition of intellects
Noun
  • Our brains hold onto beginnings and endings and lose the middle.
    — James Glover, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Across more than 140 species, primates that ate fruit had larger brains on average than their meat- or leaf-eating peers.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of brains
Noun
  • This tradition of forceful anti-American sentiment among European intellectuals went into steep decline after the abrupt end of the Cold War in the late Eighties.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
  • Katherine Kelaidis argues that figures such as Heather Cox Richardson, Jill Lepore, Joanne Freeman, Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Kevin Kruse have become a new class of liberal public intellectuals, translating the past into political commentary.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026
Definition of intellectuals
Noun
  • Kashmir’s Shaiva Hindu thinkers produced some of South Asia’s most influential texts on consciousness.
    — Peter Dziedzic, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
  • The Sparks need to not hire college wonders — no Cori Close — and enlist some good old-fashioned WNBA veteran thinkers and evaluators and leaders.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
Definition of thinkers
Noun
  • The Lacob family — featuring Joe and his son, assistant general manager Kirk — has long operated like venture capital disruptors LARPing as basketball savants.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
  • The treasure trove, which includes exclusive pieces from Hermès, Louis Vuitton, and more, has sent style savants on the internet into a frenzy.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 30 June 2026
Definition of savants
Noun
  • Oh, this is the Wizards Guild of America, an entirely different organization of wizards.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The wizards did have some help from legacy actors, including Jennifer Stone as Harper Finkle and Gregg Sulkin as Mason Greyback, in the closer.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of wizards
Noun
  • Black sages have shown that Black rage will not be silenced; rather, it is directed toward creative expression.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
  • Unlike the majority of the Mishnah—the codification of the Jewish Oral Law—Pirkei Avot has very little Halakhic content and instead emphasizes general ethical matters conveyed through aphorisms attributed to ancient rabbinic sages.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
Definition of sages
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