Meaning of agony column | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A column of a newspaper which contains advertisements relating to lost relatives and friends and other personal matters.
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2. A column written by an agony aunt, giving advice on readers' personal problems.

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Examples

“Near-synonym: problem page”

“Underlying the discussion of values in the magazine's "agony" columns is a theme of changing values, and we see a society aware of the difference between traditional and modern values and beginning to move away — albeit to a small degree — from traditional attitudes and behaviour.”

“There is little doubt that lovers separated by unfortunate circumstances, or by angry parents, as well as bachelors meditating matrimony, have found in the "Agony Column" a safe means of secret correspondence.”

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