US /ˈkɑ.ləm.nɪst/ UK /ˈkɒ.lə.mɪst/
noun Freq #26806

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    A writer who regularly produces an article or column for a newspaper or magazine.

    He works as a sports columnist for a national paper.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a writer who regularly... editorialist
Word family
Forms columnists

Etymology

From column + -ist, from Latin and Greek, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-.

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