personal column
noun1
Part of a newspaper or magazine in which people can have personal messages published.
- 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.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
- I read the paper in bed / And in the personal columns / There was this letter I read1979, Rupert Holmes, “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”, in Partners in Crime:
- Synonyms
- agony column, personals
- Related terms
- advice column, agony column, lonely-hearts, personal advertisement, problem page