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Plural of columnist

regular plural

The plural of columnist is columnists.

Forms of columnist

Singularcolumnist /ˈkɒ.lə.mɪst/
Pluralcolumnists
Countablecountable

Columnists in a sentence

  • I'm perfectly willing to walk a junior high schooler through the differences between reporters, columnists and editors.1991 November 17, William Raspberry, “WHEN STUDENTS ASK FOR HELP”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company…. From the entry junior high schooler
  • In China, “patriotic” columnists are welcome to criticize western powers for acquiring Qing lands by force during the 19th century.[2023 May 17, Jeff Pao, “China’s Jilin to ship goods via Vladivostok”, in Asia Times, archived from the original on 16 May 2023, China. From the entry Outer Khingan
  • The guy looked and acted like a cheap hood when he was the head legman for one of the biggest of the syndicated columnists.1951, Mickey Spillane, chapter 5, in The Big Kill (Guilt Edged Mystery), New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton, →OCLC; republished as…. From the entry legman
  • But it also remains that a TimberBiel sighting (that one’s all yours, gossip columnists!) is something that a wide swath of news organizations would be bound to pick up.2011 September 7, Scott Stinson, “eTalk and the celebrity gossip juggernaut”, in National Post. From the entry TimberBiel
  • As with other columnists in the British press, he treads on toes to make his point and rides roughshod over issues that others handle with kid gloves, or avoid altogether.2003 August 3, Stephen Pritchard, “Racist or just anti-Sharon?”, in The Guardian. From the entry handle with kid gloves

Meaning of columnist

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

Full definition of columnist

Questions about the plural of columnist

What is the plural of columnist?
The plural of columnist is columnists.
Is columnist countable?
Columnist is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: columnist (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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