links

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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /lɪŋks/, X-SAMPA: /lINks/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪŋks
• Homophone: lynx

Etymology 1

See link.

Noun

links

1. Plural form of link

Verb

links

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of link.

Etymology 2

From Scots link (“sandy, rolling ground near seashore”), from Old English hlinc (“rising ground”).

Noun

links (plural links)

1. A golf course, especially one situated on dunes by the sea.
   • 1894, “The Golfer in Search of a Climate”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, page 570

     but what worthy golf links is not intolerably hard of access?

   • 1919, Harold H. Hilton, “Golf Courses at Home and Abroad”, in The Windsor Magazine, no. 296, p. 173.

     The royal and ancient game of golf may now claim to be the universal game of the world, as in every part of the habitable globe links are to be found.

   • 1920, Walter Hines Page, The World’s Work, page 393

     All over the country, links are scattered — club links, public links, and private links — and every year the number grows.

   • 1967, Litellus Russell Muirhead, Scotland, page 278

     The links are the property of the town, the Courses being under the management of a joint committee representing the R. & A. Golf Club and the City.

   • 2002, Forrest L. Richardson, Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey, page 95

     A true links is built on linksland […]

   • 2003, Lorne Rubenstein, A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands, page 168

     A links is best when it’s really firm and when the wind is really up.

Translations

golf course

• Dutch: golfbaan (nl) c

Anagrams

• kilns
• slink

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Danish

Noun

links n

1. plural indefinite of link
2. genitive singular indefinite of link
3. genitive plural indefinite of link

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɪŋks/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋks
• Homophone: lynx

Etymology 1

From the adjective link 'left', from Middle Dutch linck (modern links)

Alternative forms

• linksch (obsolete; adjective only, popular etymology by analogy)

Adverb

links (comparative meer links, superlative meest links)

1. on the left

   Zie je die auto links?

   Do you see the car on the left?

2. to the left

   Bij het volgende verkeerslicht links afslaan.

   Turn left at the next traffic light.

   We gaan naar links.

   We’re going to the left.

Antonyms

• rechts

Derived terms

Derived terms

linksachter linksaf linksback linksbenig linksbinnen linksboven linksbuiten linksdraaiend linksgeschuind linksgeschuinbalkt linksgestreept linkshalf

linkshandig linksheid linksloop linksom linksomgaande linksomkeert linksonder linksop linkspoot linksrijdend linksuit linksvoetig linksvoor linkswindend schuinlinks

Adjective

links (comparative linkser, superlative meest links or linkst)

1. (not comparable) left

   Er zit een vlek op je linkse schoen.

   There’s a spot on your left shoe.

2. leftist, belonging to the ideological left

   Dat zijn linkse ideeën.

   Those are leftist ideas.

3. (predicatively) left-handed

   Ik ben links, je kan niet met mijn pen schrijven.

   I’m left-handed, you cannot write with my pen.

Declension

Declension of links

		positive	comparative	superlative
				attributive	predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial		links	linkser
neuter singular	indefinite	links	linkser
	definite	linkse	linksere	linkste	linkst, linkste
common singular		linkse	linksere	linkste	linkste
plural		linkse	linksere	linkste	linkste
partitive		links	linksers

Synonyms

• (left): linker
• (left-handed): linkshandig

Antonyms

• rechts

Derived terms

• linker
• links–extremistisch
• linkshandig
• linksheid
• linksig
• links–liberaal
• links–radicaal

Noun

links n (uncountable)

1. The left, the left side or tendency, especially in politics and any ideology.

   Dat is een opinie die je van links zou kunnen horen.

   That’s an opinion which could have come from the left.

Derived terms

• linksgeoriënteerd

Etymology 2

From English link.

Noun

links

1. plural form of link

Anagrams

• slink

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German

Etymology

Germanic, cognate with Dutch links.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɪŋks/

• Audio (Austria)

  (file)

Adverb

links

1. on the left

   Siehst du das Auto links?

   Do you see the car on the left?

2. to the left

   An der nächsten Ampel links abbiegen.

   Turn left at the next traffic light.

   Wir gehen nach links.

   We’re going to the left.

Related terms

• Linke f
• linker

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Scots

Etymology

From Old English hlinc (“a ridge", "slope", "bank”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɪŋks/

Noun

links

1. Dunes (especially sandy dunes)

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots language