Linkster
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A golfer.
"Gleefully and legally intruding upon the sanctum of the wealthy linksters, we walked the mitigation meadows."
- 2 An interpreter; a person who understands more than one language. dialectal, obsolete
"1645, John Winthrop, journal entry, in James Savage (ed.), The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, New York: Arno Press, 1972, p. 237, There was one Redman suspected to have betrayed their pinnace, for he being linkister, (because he could speak the language,) and being put out of that employment for his evil carriage, did bear ill will to the master […]"
- 3 In West and Central Africa, a bi- or multilingual agent or broker facilitating trade between Europeans and non-Europeans. broadly, obsolete
"1885, R. Wright Hay, “West Africa” in The Missionary Herald, 1885-1886, 1 March, 1886, p. 104, Upon it [the peninsula] are built four trading houses—two English, one German, and one Portuguese—which serve as depôts for the produce purchased and brought down from the interior by ‘linksters,’ or native middlemen."
Synonyms
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More examples"Gleefully and legally intruding upon the sanctum of the wealthy linksters, we walked the mitigation meadows."
Etymology
From links + -ster.
Syncopic form of linguister, probably modified after link (as a translator was the "link" between two communicating parties).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.