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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a journalist who writes editorials [syn: columnist, editorialist]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1920 one who writes a newspaper or magazine column • columnistic adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a journalist contributing regularly to a newspaper.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(columnists) A columnist is a journalist who regularly writes a particular kind of article in a newspaper or magazine. Clarence Page is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. N-COUNT: oft N for n

Moby Thesaurus

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