Oxford Dictionary English columnist noun noun BrE BrE//ˈkɒləmnɪst// ; NAmE NAmE//ˈkɑːləmnɪst// People in journalism, People in publishing Add to my wordlistjump to other resultsa journalist who writes regular articles for a newspaper or magazine a gossip/newspaper/political columnist The gossip columnists ran the story as fact without checking the source. Wordfindernewspaperarticle, columnist, editorial, feature, headline, journalist, newspaper, obituary, review, supplement Oxford Collocations DictionaryColumnist is used after these nouns: gossip, magazine, newspaper, … See full entry See related entries: People in journalism, People in publishingSee columnist in the Oxford Advanced American DictionaryCheck pronunciation: columnist oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com