advice column
noun
an agony column
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a part of a newspaper or magazine where someone gives advice to people by answering letters about their problems. The American word is advice column.
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a piece of writing about a particular subject that is published in a newspaper or magazine
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a short advertisement that you put in a newspaper, for example so that you can sell something
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a regular newspaper or magazine article on a particular subject or by a particular journalist
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a newspaper headline in which some of the words have more than one possible meaning so that it can be understood in more than one way, often humorously
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a piece of news that is published or reported by only one newspaper, magazine, television station etc
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a story in a newspaper or on television that tells the truth about a person or situation, usually with the intention of shocking or surprising you
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the section of a newspaper that contains the comic strips (=series of drawings that tell a story)
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an article that appears regularly in a newspaper or magazine and gives details of the private lives of famous people. Someone who writes a gossip column is called a gossip columnist.
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one of several parts of a story or article that are published at different times in a magazine or newspaper
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the most important story on the front page of a newspaper, or the first piece of news on a news broadcast
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a piece of writing in a newspaper in which the editor (=the person in charge of a newspaper) expresses their personal opinion on a subject
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an article that gives someone’s opinion of a new film, play etc, especially in a newspaper.
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a report in a newspaper that announces someone’s death and gives a short description of their life and achievements
adjective
an op-ed piece of writing is one that expresses someone’s opinion and is printed on the page opposite the editorials (=articles giving the newspaper’s official opinions)
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a woman who appears topless (=with her breasts showing) in photographs in some popular UK newspapers
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a short advertisement put in a newspaper or magazine by someone who is looking for friendship or for a sexual or romantic relationship
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a page in a magazine consisting of letters that people have written about problems that they have and the advice that someone gives them
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a report in a newspaper or magazine that praises something such as a film or show in a very enthusiastic way
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a newspaper report about a shocking event, or a report that describes something in a deliberately shocking way
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a short advertisement that you put in a newspaper when you want to buy or sell something
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the amount of space that is available for publishing something such as an article or advertisement
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a short summary of a newspaper story or article that appears between the headline and the start of the story or article
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an article in a newspaper or magazine that gives the writer’s opinion about something such as a new book, play, or film
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a news article that consists of a chart … and only has a small amount of text
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