advice columnist
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.56 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who writes for the advice column of a newspaper.
Example Sentences
- "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!""
- "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."
Etymology
From advice column + -ist.