Dictionary

columnist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈkɒ.lə.mɪst/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈkɑ.lə.mɪst/ (General-American)
• /ˈkɒ.ləm.nɪst/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈkɑ.ləm.nɪst/ (General-American)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.
   • 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:
   • a sports columnist
   • 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:
   • a news columnist

Forms

Deriveds

cybercolumnist · society columnist · advice columnist · sixth columnist · social columnist

Relateds

fifth columnist · column

Translations (42)

nl columniste (regular writer of a column) · pa ਕਾਲਮ ਨਵੀਸ (regular writer of a column) · de Kolumnist (regular writer of a column) · sv kåsör (regular writer of a column) · cs sloupkař (regular writer of a column) · ro foiletonist (regular writer of a column) · ga colúnaí (regular writer of a column) · gl columnista (regular writer of a column) · mt kolonnista (regular writer of a column) · vi người viết chuyên mục (regular writer of a column) · fr chroniqueur (regular writer of a column) · zza kuncnuştoğ (regular writer of a column) · fi kolumnisti (regular writer of a column) · ru колумни́ст (regular writer of a column) · ca columnista (regular writer of a column) · id kolumnis (regular writer of a column) · fa ستوننویس (regular writer of a column) · pt colunista (regular writer of a column) · es columnista (regular writer of a column) · de Kolumnistin (regular writer of a column) · sv kolumnist (regular writer of a column) · ms kolumnis (regular writer of a column) · nl columnist (regular writer of a column) · ro columnist (regular writer of a column) · tr köşe yazarı (regular writer of a column) · az köşə yazarı (regular writer of a column) · mr स्तंभलेखक (regular writer of a column) · pl felietonista (regular writer of a column) · ht kronikè (regular writer of a column) · uk колумни́ст (regular writer of a column) · hi स्तंभ-लेखक (regular writer of a column) · it colonnista (regular writer of a column) · zza kuncnuştoğe (regular writer of a column) · tl kolumnista (regular writer of a column) · es articulista (regular writer of a column) · gd colbhair (regular writer of a column) · hy սյունակագիր (regular writer of a column) · ar عَمُود كَاتِب (regular writer of a column) · sv krönikör (regular writer of a column) · tl manunudling (regular writer of a column) · da klummeskriver (regular writer of a column) · ro editorialist (regular writer of a column)