links

See also: Links, and links'

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) 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, number 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
• Irish: dumhach (ga) f
• Maori: papa purei korowha, papa hahaupōro
• Occitan: camp de gòlf m

Anagrams

• kilns, slink

Danish

Noun

links n

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

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

• linksachter
• linksaf
• linksback
• linksbenig
• linksbinnen
• linksboven
• linksbuiten
• linksdraaiend
• linksgeschuinbalkt
• linksgeschuind
• 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

   Synonym: linker

   Antonym: rechts

   Er zit een vlek op je linkse schoen.

   There’s a spot on your left shoe.

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

   Antonym: rechts

   Dat zijn linkse ideeën.

   Those are left-wing ideas.

3. (predicatively) left-handed

   Synonym: linkshandig

   Antonym: rechts

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

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

Declension

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

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

 

Descendants

• Berbice Creole Dutch: slinggrid

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. plural of link

Anagrams

• slink

German

Alternative forms

• l., li. (abbreviations)

Etymology

From Middle High German linkes, originally the genitive of linc, whence modern link; see there for more. Cognate with Dutch links.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪŋks/

• Audio (Austria):

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• Audio:

  (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.

3. 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
  • Linke f
• linksdonauisch
• linksdünisch
• linkselbisch
• linksdrehend
• Linkshänder
• linksmaasisch
• linksodrisch
• linksrekursiv
• linksrheinisch
• Linksruck
• linksseitig
• Linksschwenk
• Linksverkehr
• linksweserisch

(political)

• linksalternativ
• linksextrem, linksextremistisch
• Linksfaschismus
• linkslastig
• Linkstotalitarismus
• Linkstum

Further reading

• links on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “links” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “links” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German links, Dutch links.

Adverb

links

1. left, to the left

Portuguese

Noun

links

1. plural of link

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

Spanish

Noun

links m pl

1. plural of link