Links

Etymology 1
See link.

Noun
links



Verb
links



Etymology 2
From link:, from  hlinc:.

Noun

 * 1) A golf course, especially one situated on dunes by the sea.
 * 2) * 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?
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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 […]
 * 1) * 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

 * Dutch: golfbaan

Anagrams

 * kilns
 * slink

Etymology 1
From the adjective link 'left', from linck (modern links)

Alternative forms

 * linksch (obsolete; adjective only, popular etymology by analogy)

Adverb
( meer links, meest links)


 * 1) on the left
 * ''Zie je die auto links?
 * ''Do you see the car on the left?
 * 1) 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.

Antonyms

 * rechts

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

Adjective

 * 1)  left
 * ''Er zit een vlek op je linkse schoen.
 * ''There’s a spot on your left shoe.
 * 1) leftist, belonging to the ideological left
 * ''Dat zijn linkse ideeën.
 * ''Those are leftist ideas.
 * 1)  left-handed
 * ''Ik ben links, je kan niet met mijn pen schrijven.
 * ''I’m left-handed, you cannot write with my pen.

Synonyms

 * linker
 * linkshandig

Antonyms

 * rechts

Derived terms

 * linker
 * links–extremistisch
 * linkshandig
 * linksheid
 * linksig
 * links–liberaal
 * links–radicaal

Noun

 * 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 which could have come from the left.

Derived terms

 * linksgeoriënteerd

Etymology 2
See link:.

Noun
links


 * , 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.

Etymology 3
From link:.

Noun
links



Anagrams

 * slink

Etymology
Germanic, cognate with

Adverb
links


 * 1) on the left
 * ''Siehst du das Auto links?
 * ''Do you see the car on the left?
 * 1) 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.

Related terms

 * Linke

Etymology
From hlinc:

Noun

 * 1) Dunes especially sandy dunes