columnist
//ˈkɒ.lə.mɪst//
Forms
- Plural
- columnists
Definitions
1.A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4961
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From column + -ist
From Latin and Greek, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-.