Actually I think you will find that the word you are looking for is 'polymath'. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
I would like to contribute a few more based on my book experience over the last year about what a next generation, "polymath" analyst firm should aim for. From Wordnik.com. [deal architect] Reference
Ireland used to call a "polymath," for he professed at one time or another, in various universities, logic, metaphysics, Greek, and finally natural history. From Wordnik.com. [Science and Morals and Other Essays] Reference
The polymath is a myth. From Wordnik.com. [Fire and Knowledge] Reference
June 27th, 2007 at 12: 01 am PDT polymath try Outlook. From Wordnik.com. [Google Docs Gets Folders, Now What About Gmail?] Reference
RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Andre Previn is a musical polymath. From Wordnik.com. [Andre Previn: Musical Polymath Goes Solo] Reference
He was a polymath, one of the great Renaissance men of his time. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: The Afghan War and the Spirit of Jefferson] Reference
Death of Ibn al-Tabban (b. 923), a renowned scholar and polymath. From Wordnik.com. [f. North Africa] Reference
Gmail then becomes the archive for all my messages. reply polymath. From Wordnik.com. [Google Docs Gets Folders, Now What About Gmail?] Reference
Besides being blind, he was a fluent polymath of reed instruments. From Wordnik.com. [Rahsaan as Orpheus] Reference
When someone said that this made her uncomfortable, polymath said. From Wordnik.com. [Women Who Don’t Call It Rape] Reference
He's a polymath, vastly curious, "like a sponge," says one colleague. From Wordnik.com. [How Kool Is Rem] Reference
Call Dr. Miller a polymath and now you're really itching for a fight. From Wordnik.com. [Please Don't Call Him a Polymath] Reference
One of the clearest proofs appears in the biography of the Ge-luk polymath. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuk-den affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part I)] Reference
Young Jefferson was a polymath, an autodidact, a nerd literally without peer. From Wordnik.com. [None so Blind]
Viola was intrigued: Diogenes seemed to be as much of a polymath as his brother. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
A notable example is the German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Larry Dossey: Spiritual Living: Why We Need Empathic Science] Reference
Ziauddin Sardar, writer and broadcaster, describes himself as a ‘critical polymath’. From Wordnik.com. [Situation In Pakistan Is Much More Complicated Than The MSM Or Bush States] Reference
A myriad-minded polymath and inventor, he acquired, even in his own lifetime, the aura of a magus. From Wordnik.com. [We Are Blind to Her Charms] Reference
I approached a polymath I admire, to receive rather a frosty greeting -- until he recognized my name. From Wordnik.com. [Tribeca 2010: Notes From Under the Red Carpet] Reference
I do think, at least for now, that he is merely afflicted with the impatience of the egoistic polymath. From Wordnik.com. [Is Jerry Brown the California John McCain?] Reference
He's a polymath who wears his wisdom lightly, with eyes and ears everywhere and a voice as loud as thunder. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Vargas Llosa] Reference
His status as public intellectual rested on this background, that of a multilingual polymath, a modern philosophe. From Wordnik.com. ['Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography'] Reference
Wills is a polymath in the learned yet lively tradition of Edmund Wilson-with less tendency to talk through his hat. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipator As Enchanter] Reference
Dylan Evans is a mild-mannered British polymath, whose interests range from neuroscience to artificial intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [James Geary: Life in Utopia] Reference
Posidonius is the greatest polymath of antiquity, at once philosopher, historian, geographer, and natural scientist. From Wordnik.com. [PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY] Reference
Like Casanova, Mr. Kelly is something of a polymath, and his professional activities make him an apt guide to his subject. From Wordnik.com. [Busy, Busy, Busy] Reference
Lost in Showbiz is famously steadfast in its belief that every celebrity is, by default, a polymath genius to rival Cicero. From Wordnik.com. [Tara Newley's gritty new film] Reference
At the time, he was hitting his stride professionally, a cinematic polymath who was able to do everything well and often did. From Wordnik.com. [Thunder on the Left] Reference
Zhu was a great polymath who wrote on education, philosophy, the family, and the state, and commentaries on all the classics. From Wordnik.com. [b. Political, Social, and Cultural Patterns] Reference
So Lost in Showbiz is overjoyed to read in Hello!, the self-styled journal of the 21st-century polymath genius, of a new screenplay. From Wordnik.com. [Tara Newley's gritty new film] Reference
Since Ocellus 'work is first mentioned by the Roman polymath, Varro, scholars have dated it to the first half of the first century BC. From Wordnik.com. [Pythagoreanism] Reference
Our good friend and polymath Gerry Snyder was again extremely helpful, generously tackling any technical problem, whether large or small. From Wordnik.com. [The Garden of Rama]
The book was the work of Peter Mark Roget, a British polymath who is now the subject of Joshua Kendall's engaging "The Man Who Made Lists.". From Wordnik.com. [A Yen for Synonyms] Reference
Garry WillsA polymath specializing in America's intellectual history, he's the interpreter of current politics for The N.Y. Review of Books. From Wordnik.com. [The Newsweek 100] Reference
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