AGONY COLUMN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agony column mean? 

• AGONY COLUMN (noun)
  The noun AGONY COLUMN has 1 sense:

1. a newspaper column devoted to personal problems

  Familiarity information: AGONY COLUMN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGONY COLUMN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A newspaper column devoted to personal problems

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("agony column" is a kind of...):

column; editorial; newspaper column (an article giving opinions or perspectives)

 Context examples 

Since he cannot communicate with her direct, he has recourse to the agony column of a paper.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Daily Telegraph agony column by the print and paper. Right-hand top corner of a page.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the mantelpiece.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)