Synonyms for link
- noun
- verb
Most common
connection linkage relation connectedness tie link-up contact
Definitions
- n. 1
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
- n. 2
One element of a chain or other connected series.
The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
- v. 1
To connect (two or more things).
- v. 2
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
My homepage links to my wife's.
Related words
- Word family
- linkage link-dead linkless
- Phrases
- link-up link bait link boy link editor missing link symbolic link association link link language
- Is a kind of
- relation
Example sentences
- connection Yanni and Skura developed an immediate connection.
- hyperlink Would you please make a hyperlink to our corporate site from your page?
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| link | rising | |
| connection | falling | |
| linkage | steady | |
| hyperlink | steady | |
| vinculum | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- tie1, wed1
- 4 letters
- join1, band1, bond1, bind1, yoke1
- 5 letters
- unite2, nexus2, hitch1, affix2
- 6 letters
- member2, couple2, relate2, attach2, clinch1, fasten2
- 7 letters
- contact2, connect2, liaison3, linkage2, conjoin2
- 8 letters
- relation3, juncture2, vinculum
- 9 letters
- associate4, hyperlink3, colligate
- 10 letters
- connection3, connective3, inosculate
- 11 letters
- concatenate4
- 13 letters
- connectedness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (unite2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- maillon