advice columnist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
advice columnist (plural advice columnists)
- Someone who regularly writes for the advice column of a newspaper.
- 1984, Hilarie N. Staton, Think and Write, Good Year Books, →ISBN, page 115:
- The columns consist of letters from men and women with problems, followed by brief answers from the advice columnist. The letters are often filled with emotion.
- 2006, Alecia T. Devantier, Carol A. Turkington, Extraordinary Jobs in Media, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:
- Ann Landers, who sometimes wrote her columns from her bathtub, called herself “the general manager of the world,” which pretty much describes the types of questions an advice columnist might be called upon to answer.
- 2007, Roberta Isleib, Deadly Advice, Penguin, →ISBN:
- Margaret Maron, author of Winter's Child "A really plummy mystery, flawlessly plotted, that I especially loved because the heroine is an advice columnist — and a good one!"
- 2017, David Gudelunas, Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Readers, at least contemporary ones, are aware that writing to an advice columnist is an odd place to turn for help. They didn't doubt, however, that people still wrote to advice columns.
Synonyms[edit]
- agony aunt (informal, Britain)
Translations[edit]
someone who writes for an advice column
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