Associations to the word «Generalist»

Wiktionary

GENERALIST, noun. A person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields.
GENERALIST, noun. (medicine) A general practitioner.
GENERALIST, noun. (ecology) Species which can thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions.

Dictionary definition

GENERALIST, noun. 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".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne