Links
From Mereja Words
- For zikkir's links, see zikkir:Links
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See link.
Noun
links
- Plural form of link.
Verb
links
- 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)- 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.
- 1894, “The Golfer in Search of a Climate”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, page 570
Translations
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
Links n.
Dutch
Pronunciation
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)
- on the left
- Zie je die auto links?
- Do you see the car on the left?
- Zie je die auto links?
- 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.
- Bij het volgende verkeerslicht links afslaan.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Derived terms
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.
- Er zit een vlek op je linkse schoen.
- leftist, belonging to the ideological left
- Dat zijn linkse ideeën.
- Those are leftist ideas.
- Dat zijn linkse ideeën.
- (predicatively) left-handed
- Ik ben links, je kan niet met mijn pen schrijven.
- I’m left-handed, you cannot write with my pen.
- Ik ben links, je kan niet met mijn pen schrijven.
Declension
Declension of Links
Synonyms
- (left): linker
- (left-handed): linkshandig
Antonyms
Derived terms
Noun
Links (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 which could have come from the left.
- Dat is een opinie die je van links zou kunnen horen.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See link.
Noun
links
- nominalization of link, something which is dangerous.
- Als je nog eens zoiets links wil doen, waarschuw ons dan even.
- If you want to do something that dangerous again, give us a warning.
- Als je nog eens zoiets links wil doen, waarschuw ons dan even.
Etymology 3
From English link.
Noun
links
Anagrams
German
Etymology
Germanic, cognate with #Dutch#links
Pronunciation
Adverb
links
- on the left
- Siehst du das Auto links?
- Do you see the car on the left?
- Siehst du das Auto links?
- 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.
- An der nächsten Ampel links abbiegen.
Related terms
- Linke f.
Scots
Etymology
From Old English hlinc (“a ridge", "slope", "bank”)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lɪŋks/
Noun
Links
References
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