Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

personal column

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English

Syllables: per-son-al -col-umn
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Part of a newspaper or magazine in which people can have personal messages published.

Example Sentences

"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."
"I read the paper in bed / And in the personal columns / There was this letter I read"

Inflected Forms

personal columns (plural)

Phrases

advice column agony column lonely-hearts personal advertisement problem page

Frequently Paired Words

advice column agony column lonely-hearts personal advertisement problem page

Synonyms

agony column personals

Questions

What does personal column mean?: Part of a newspaper or magazine in which people can have personal messages published.

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