'columnist' definitions:
Definition of 'columnist'
(from WordNet)
noun
A journalist who writes editorials [syn: columnist, editorialist]
Definition of 'columnist'
From: GCIDE
- columnist \col"um*nist\, n. a journalist who writes or edits a regularly scheduled column[8] in a periodical, usually in editorial style; a type of editorialist. [RP]
- fifth columnist see fifth columnist in the vocabulary.
Synonyms of 'columnist'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- city editor,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copy chief,
- copy editor,
- copyman,
- copyreader,
- copywriter,
- correspondent,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- cub reporter,
- dance critic,
- diarist,
- diaskeuast,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- editor,
- editorial writer,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- feature editor,
- foreign correspondent,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- gazetteer,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- humorist,
- inditer,
- interviewer,
- journalist,
- leader writer,
- leg man,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- managing editor,
- monographer,
- music critic,
- news editor,
- newsman,
- newspaperman,
- newspaperwoman,
- newswriter,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- own correspondent,
- pamphleteer,
- paragrapher,
- paragraphist,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- pressman,
- prose writer,
- publicist,
- reader,
- reporter,
- reviewer,
- reviser,
- rewrite man,
- rewriter,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- slotman,
- sob sister,
- special correspondent,
- sports editor,
- storyteller,
- subeditor,
- technical writer,
- war correspondent,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer