columnist

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: col=umn=ist

CIDE DICTIONARY

columnist, 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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

columnist, n. a journalist contributing regularly to a newspaper.

THESAURUS

columnist

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