agony column

== English == === Noun === agony column (plural agony columns) (chiefly UK) A column of a newspaper which contains advertisements relating to lost relatives and friends and other personal matters. Near-synonym: problem page A column written by an agony aunt, giving advice on readers' personal problems. Synonym: advice column ==== Related terms ==== agony aunt === References === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “agony column”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “agony column”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “agony column”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.