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/ˈkɒ.lə.mɪst/ · noun
A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper..
a sports columnist
a news columnist
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.
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.
Use columnist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Columnist means A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper..
Common synonyms include editorialist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a sports columnist
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