links

See also: Links and links'

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪŋks/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋks
• Homophone: lynx

Etymology 1

See link.

Noun

links

1. plural of link

Verb

links

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of link

Etymology 2

From Scots links (“sandy, rolling ground near seashore”), linkis, from Old English hlincas (“rising grounds, hills”).

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, page 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

• Catalan: camp de golf (ca) m
• Dutch: golfbaan (nl) c
• French: links (fr) m pl
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: dumhach (ga) f
• Maori: papa purei korowha, papa hahaupōro

Anagrams

• kilns, slink

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Danish

Noun

links n

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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪŋks/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋks
• Homophone: lynx

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lincs (“left, clumsy”). Equivalent to link +‎ -s.

Adverb

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.

Usage notes

When used as a modifier, before a noun, the form linker is used.

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

Etymology 2

From the adverb links.

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.

   Synonym: linker

   Antonym: rechts

2. left-wing, leftist, belonging to the ideological left

   Dat zijn linkse ideeën.

   Those are left-wing ideas.

   Antonym: rechts

3. (predicatively) left-handed

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

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

   Synonym: linkshandig

   Antonym: rechts

Inflection

Declension of links
uninflected	links
inflected	linkse
comparative	linkser
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		links	linkser	het linkst het linkste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	linkse	linksere	linkste
	n. sing.	links	linkser	linkste
	plural	linkse	linksere	linkste
definite		linkse	linksere	linkste
partitive		links	linksers	—

Derived terms

• links-extremistisch
• linkshandig
• linksheid
• linksig
• links-liberaal
• links-radicaal

Etymology 3

From the adverb links.

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 that could have come from the left.

Derived terms

• linksgeoriënteerd

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

links

1. (deprecated template usage) Plural form of link

Anagrams

• slink

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German

Alternative forms

• l., li. (abbreviations)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Germanic, cognate with Dutch links.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪŋks/

• Audio (Austria):

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• Audio:

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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.

3. inside out

   Die Frauen stellten sich zum Zählappell in die Reihe, sagten ihre Namen und die Nummer, machten die Taschen der Pufoaikas links und zeigten in jeder Hand ihre zwei Kartoffeln.

   The women stood in rows to be counted, said their names and numbers, turned their pockets of their fufaikas inside out and showed their two potatoes in each hand. From Atemschaukel by Herta Müller.

Related terms

• Linke f
• linker

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Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German links, Dutch links.

Adverb

links

1. left, to the left

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Scots

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪŋks/

Noun

links

1. Dunes (especially sandy dunes)

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots language

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Spanish

Noun

links

1. plural of link