columnist
USKAH-luhm-nist/ˈkɑ.ləm.nɪst/UKKO-luh-mist/ˈkɒ.lə.mɪst/
Pluralcolumnists
- 1A person who regularly writes a column for a newspaper or magazine.
The newspaper hired a new columnist to cover political affairs.
Several columnists weighed in on the scandal during the election season.
Similarcommentator, pundit, writer, journalist, correspondent
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with columnist, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.
Origin
Formed from "column" plus the suffix "-ist", tracing back through Latin and Greek, ultimately to the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷel-.