Dictionary

advice columnist en · NOUN

Etymology

From advice column + -ist.

Meanings

1. Someone who writes for the advice column of a newspaper.
   • 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!" 2007, Roberta Isleib, Deadly Advice, Penguin, →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. 2017, David Gudelunas, Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education, Routledge, →ISBN:
   • 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. 2006, Alecia T. Devantier, Carol A. Turkington, Extraordinary Jobs in Media, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:
   • 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. 1984, Hilarie N. Staton, Think and Write, Good Year Books, →ISBN, page 115:

Forms

Synonyms

agony aunt · agony aunty · agony uncle · agony auntie

Translations (17)

pt colunista de conselhos (someone who writes for an advice column) · mr सल्ला स्तंभलेखक (someone who writes for an advice column) · tr güzin abla (someone who writes for an advice column) · it redattore rubrica dei consigli (someone who writes for an advice column) · de Briefkastenonkel (someone who writes for an advice column) · fi neuvontapalstan pitäjä (someone who writes for an advice column) · de Kummerkastentante (someone who writes for an advice column) · es doctora corazón (someone who writes for an advice column) · da brevkasseredaktør (someone who writes for an advice column) · pl redaktor rubryki porad osobistych (someone who writes for an advice column) · de Briefkastentante (someone who writes for an advice column) · pt colunista conselheira (someone who writes for an advice column) · pl redaktorka rubryki porad osobistych (someone who writes for an advice column) · nb Klara Klok (someone who writes for an advice column) · it redattrice rubrica dei consigli (someone who writes for an advice column) · pt colunista conselheiro (someone who writes for an advice column) · fi ihmissuhdekolumnisti (someone who writes for an advice column)