Renaissance woman

See also: renaissance woman

English

Alternative forms

• renaissance woman

Noun

Renaissance woman (plural Renaissance women)

1. A woman with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.

   Coordinate term: Renaissance man

2. (literally) A woman who lived in the Renaissance period.
   • 1995, Mary Beth Rose, Perspectives on Renaissance Drama, →ISBN, page 35:

     These writers all confirm what has become a cliché about the Renaissance woman as “chaste, silent and obedient” (as the title of Suzanne Hull's bibliography of books for and about Renaissance women has it).

Further reading

• “Renaissance woman”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.