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columnist

[kol-uhm-nist, -uh-mist] Origin

col·um·nist

[kol-uhm-nist, -uh-mist]
noun
the writer or editor of a newspaper or magazine column.

Origin:
1915–20; Americanism; column + -ist
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columnist (ˈkɒləmɪst, -əmnɪst)
 
n
a journalist who writes a regular feature in a newspaper: a gossip columnist

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columnist
1920, from column in the newspaper sense.
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