links
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
See link.
Noun edit
links
Verb edit
links
- third-person singular simple present indicative of link
Etymology 2 edit
From Scots links (“sandy, rolling ground near seashore”), linkis, from Old English hlincas (“rising grounds, hills”).
Noun edit
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, 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.
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Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Noun edit
links n
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch lincs (“left, clumsy”). Equivalent to link + -s.
Adverb edit
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 edit
When used as a modifier, before a noun, the form linker is used.
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From the adverb links.
Adjective edit
links (comparative linkser, superlative meest links or linkst)
- (not comparable) left
- left-wing, leftist, belonging to the ideological left
- Antonym: rechts
- Dat zijn linkse ideeën.
- Those are left-wing ideas.
- (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.
Inflection edit
Inflection of links | ||||
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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 edit
Descendants edit
- Berbice Creole Dutch: slinggrid
Etymology 3 edit
From the adverb links.
Noun edit
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 edit
Etymology 4 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
links
Anagrams edit
German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German linkes, originally the genitive of linc, whence modern link; see there for more. Cognate with Dutch links.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
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 edit
- link
- linksdonauisch
- linksdünisch
- linkselbisch
- linksdrehend
- Linkshänder
- linksmaasisch
- linksodrisch
- linksrekursiv
- linksrheinisch
- Linksruck
- linksseitig
- Linksschwenk
- Linksverkehr
- linksweserisch
(political)
- linksalternativ
- linksextrem, linksextremistisch
- Linksfaschismus
- linkslastig
- Linkstotalitarismus
- Linkstum
Further reading edit
Pennsylvania German edit
Etymology edit
Compare German links, Dutch links.
Adverb edit
links
- left, to the left
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Old English hlinc (“a ridge", "slope", "bank”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
links
References edit
Spanish edit
Noun edit
links m pl