Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

columnist

/ˈkɑ.ləm.nɪst/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English

Syllables: colum-nist
IPA: /ˈkɑ.ləm.nɪst/

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Proto-Indo-European

Word Breakdown

Root: *kʷel-

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈkɑ.ləm.nɪst/
British English: /ˈkɒ.lə.mɪst/

Inflected Forms

columnists (plural)

Derived Forms

cybercolumnist

Phrases

advice columnist sixth columnist social columnist society columnist fifth columnist

Frequently Paired Words

column fifth columnist

Synonyms

editorialist

Questions

How do you pronounce columnist?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɑ.ləm.nɪst/.
What does columnist mean?: A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.
Where does columnist come from?: It is traced to Proto-Indo-European.

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