advice columnist

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Someone who writes for the advice column of a newspaper.

   • 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.
   • 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.
   • 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!"

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