links
See also: Links and links'
- For Wiktionary's links, see Wiktionary:Links
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /lɪŋks/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋks
- Homophone: lynx
Etymology 1
See link.
Noun
links
- plural of link
Verb
links
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of link
Etymology 2
From Scots links (“sandy, rolling ground near seashore”), linkis, from Old English hlincas (“rising grounds, hills”).
Noun
links (plural links)
- 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.
- 1894, “The Golfer in Search of a Climate”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, page 570
Translations
golf course
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Anagrams
- kilns, slink
Danish
Noun
links n
- indefinite genitive singular of link
- indefinite plural of link
- indefinite genitive plural of link
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɪŋks/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋks
- Homophone: lynx
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch lincs (“left, clumsy”). Equivalent to link + -s.
Adverb
links
- on the left
- Zie je die auto links?
- Do you see the car on the left?
- 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)
- (not comparable) left
- Er zit een vlek op je linkse schoen.
- There’s a spot on your left shoe.
- Synonym: linker
- Antonym: rechts
- left-wing, leftist, belonging to the ideological left
- Dat zijn linkse ideeën.
- Those are left-wing ideas.
- Antonym: rechts
- (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
| Inflection 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
Descendants
- Berbice Creole Dutch: slinggrid
Etymology 3
From the adverb links.
Noun
links n (uncountable)
- 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
- Plural form of link
Anagrams
- slink
German
Alternative forms
- l., li. (abbreviations)
Etymology
From Middle High German linkes, originally the genitive of linc (modern link); of unknown origin. Cognate with Dutch links.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɪŋks/
Audio (Austria) (file) Audio (file)
Adverb
links
- on the left
- Siehst du das Auto links?
- Do you see the car on the left?
- 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.
- inside out
- links verbügeln ― iron inside out
- From Atemschaukel (originally 2009) by Herta Müller:.
- 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.
Related terms
- link/linker
- Linker
- Linke f
- linksdonauisch
- linksdünisch
- linkselbisch
- linksdrehend
- Linkshänder
- linksmaasisch
- linksodrisch
- linksrekursiv
- linksrheinisch
- Linksruck
- linksseitig
- Linksschwenk
- Linksverkehr
- linksweserisch
(political)
- linksalternativ
- linksextrem, linksextremistisch
- Linksfaschismus
- linkslastig
- Linkstotalitarismus
Further reading
- “links” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “links” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Compare German links, Dutch links.
Adverb
links
- left, to the left
Scots
Etymology
From Old English hlinc (“a ridge", "slope", "bank”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɪŋks/
Noun
links
- Dunes (especially sandy dunes)
References
- The Dictionary of the Scots language
Spanish
Noun
links m pl
- plural of link