LEONARDO

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• LEONARDO (noun)
  The noun LEONARDO has 1 sense:

1. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)

  Familiarity information: LEONARDO used as a noun is very rare.

• LEONARDO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

da Vinci; Leonardo; Leonardo da Vinci

Instance hypernyms:

applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

old master (a great European painter prior to 19th century)

carver; sculptor; sculpturer; statue maker (an artist who creates sculptures)

 Context examples 

Instead, we found that resting, early and often, may be just as critical to learning as practice, said Leonardo G. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator at NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

(Brains may use short rest periods to strengthen memories, National Institutes of Health)