Meanings
links1
- pluralplural of link
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of link
links2
- A golf course, especially one situated on dunes by the sea.
A true links is built on linksland […]
2002, Forrest L. Richardson, Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey, page 955 more examples
but what worthy golf links is not intolerably hard of access?
1894, “The Golfer in Search of a Climate”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, page 570The 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.
1919, Harold H. Hilton, “Golf Courses at Home and Abroad”, in The Windsor Magazine, number 296, page 173All over the country, links are scattered — club links, public links, and private links — and every year the number grows.
1920, Walter Hines Page, The World’s Work, page 393The 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.
1967, Litellus Russell Muirhead, Scotland, page 278A links is best when it’s really firm and when the wind is really up.
2003, Lorne Rubenstein, A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands, page 168
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna golf course that is built on sandy ground near a shore
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
links · noun
- Old Englishhlincas“rising grounds, hills”
- Scotslinks“sandy, rolling ground near seashore”
- Englishlinks
From Scots links (“sandy, rolling ground near seashore”), linkis, from Old English hlincas (“rising grounds, hills”).
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Catalan camp de golf
- camp de golfgolf course
Dutch golfbaan
- golfbaangolf course
French links
- linksgolf course
Irish dumhach
- dumhachgolf course
Māori papa purei korowha, papa hahaupōro
- papa purei korowhagolf course
- papa hahaupōrogolf course
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
links. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/links
“links.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/links. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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