columnist

CEFRC1

/ˈkɒ.lə.mɪst/

noun

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noun
A writer who regularly publishes articles in a newspaper or website.
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noun
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A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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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.
2006, Alecia T. Devantier, Carol A. Turkington, Extraordinary Jobs in Media, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 1
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.
2008 February 27, Kira Cochrane, “How could it happen again?”, in The Guardian

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