agony column

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   a newspaper column devoted to personal problems

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Questions about agony column

What does agony column mean?

agony column means "a newspaper column devoted to personal problems".

Is agony column a common word?

agony column is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.