personal column

plural personal columns

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

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

   1979, Rupert Holmes, “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”, in Partners in Crime

   1 more example

   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

   Synonyms: agony column, personals