English
Noun
personal column (plural personal columns)
- Part of a newspaper or magazine in which people can have personal messages published.
- 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
- She saw in the occasion an opportunity and on the morning of the sixth a message appeared in the personal column of The Daily Telegraph—their usual channel of communication—making an assignation.
- 1979, Rupert Holmes, “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”, in Partners in Crime:
- I read the paper in bed / And in the personal columns / There was this letter I read
Synonyms
- agony column (UK, now uncommon); personals
See also
Further reading
- “personal column”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “personal column”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “personal column”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “personal column” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “personal column” (US) / “personal column” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.