columnist

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• advice columnist
• cybercolumnist
• social columnist
• society columnist

Translations

regular writer of a column

• Arabic: عَمُود كَاتِب (ar) m (kātib ʕamūd)
• Armenian: սյունակագիր (syunakagir)
• Catalan: columnista m or f
• Czech: sloupkař m
• Danish: klummeskriver c
• Dutch: columnist (nl) m or n, columniste (nl) f
• French: chroniqueur (fr) m
• Galician: columnista m or f
• German: Kolumnist (de) m, Kolumnistin (de) f
• Hindi: स्तंभ-लेखक m (stambh-lekhak)
• Indonesian: kolumnis (id)
• Irish: colúnaí m
• Italian: colonnista m or f
• Malay: kolumnis
• Marathi: स्तंभलेखक m (stambhlekhak)
• Persian: ستون‌نویس
• Polish: felietonista (pl) m
• Portuguese: colunista (pt) m or f
• Punjabi: ਕਾਲਮ ਨਵੀਸ m (kālam navīs)
• Romanian: columnist (ro) m, editorialist m, foiletonist (ro) m
• Russian: колумни́ст (ru) m (kolumníst)
• Scottish Gaelic: colbhair m
• Spanish: columnista (es) m or f, articulista (es) m or f
• Swedish: krönikör (sv) c, kåsör (sv) c, kolumnist (sv) c
• Tagalog: manunudling (rare), kolumnista
• Ukrainian: колумни́ст (kolumnýst)
• Zazaki: kuncnuştoğ m, kuncnuştoğe f

See also

• column
• fifth columnist

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

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

Descendants

• → Indonesian: kolumnis

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

columnist m (plural columniști)

1. columnist

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	columnist	columnistul	columniști	columniștii
genitive-dative	columnist	columnistului	columniști	columniștilor
vocative	columnistule		columniștilor

References

• “columnist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026