link
/ˈlɪŋk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.99 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
The connection between buses or systems.
noun
A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
noun
An individual person or element in a system.
Example Sentences
- "The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media."
- "The link of brotherhood, by which / One common Maker bound me to the kind."
- "And so by double lynkes enchaynde themselues in louers life"
- "The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered."
- "The weakest link."
- "The link on the page points to the sports scores."
Etymology
From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainlink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“bendsome, flexible”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng-, *klenk- (“to bend; twist; wind”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank. Cognates Cognate with Low German Lenk (“link”), Danish lænke (“chain; link”), Elfdalian lekk (“link”), Icelandic hlekkur (“link”), Norwegian Bokmål lenke (“chain; link”), Norwegian Nynorsk lenke, lenkje (“chain; link”), Swedish länk (“chain; link”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: linke, hlenċe, *hlenkr, *hlankiz, *hlankaz, *kleng-