columnist

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒ.lə.mɪst/, /ˈkɒ.ləm.nɪst/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.ləm.nɪst/, /ˈkɑ.lə.mɪst/

columnist (plural columnists)

1. A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.

   a sports columnist

   a news columnist

   a sporadic columnist

   • 2006, Alecia T. Devantier, Carol A. Turkington, Extraordinary Jobs in Media, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:

     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.

   • 2008 February 27, Kira Cochrane, “How could it happen again?”, in The Guardian‎^[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.

• column
• fifth columnist

Borrowed from English columnist, equivalent to column +‎ -ist.

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columnist m (plural columnisten, diminutive columnistje n, feminine columniste)

1. a (male or unspecified) regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper; a columnist

• → Indonesian: kolumnis

Borrowed from English columnist. By surface analysis, columnă +‎ -ist.

• IPA^(key): /ko.lumˈnist/
• Rhymes: -ist
• Hyphenation: co‧lum‧nist

columnist m (plural columniști)

1. columnist

• “columnist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025