columnist
nounUK /ˈkɒ.lə.mɪst/ · US /ˈkɑ.ləm.nɪst/
Etymology From column + -ist, from Latin and Greek, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-.
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A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.
- a sports columnist
- a news columnist
3 more examples
- a sporadic columnist
- Ann Landers, who sometimes wrote her columns from her bathtub, called herself “the general manager of the world,” which pretty much describes the types of questions an advice columnist might be called upon to answer.2006, Alecia T. Devantier, Carol A. Turkington, Extraordinary Jobs in Media, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:
- As soon as it was suggested that it was considering the Swedish model – in which men are criminalised for buying sex, but the women working in prostitution are decriminalised – a slew of prominent male columnists started arguing against this infringement on a man's right to purchase a woman's body.2008 February 27, Kira Cochrane, “How could it happen again?”, in The Guardian:
- Derived terms
- advice columnist, cybercolumnist, social columnist, society columnist
- Related terms
- column, fifth columnist