Noun: brink
| Singular | brink |
| Plural | brinks |
Sample Sentences
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the brink of a river
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And the appearance of it much comforted us, especially seeing so goodly a land, and wooded to the brink of the sea. [1622, Edward Winslow, William Bradford, Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth:]
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the brink of success
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As South Korea heads to the polls, can Lee Jae-myung bring the country back from the brink? [title] [2025 June 1, Raphael Rashid, “As South Korea heads to the polls, can Lee Jae-myung bring the country back from the brink?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
Nouns inflected like brink
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English brinke, brenke, from Old Norse *brenka, brekka, from Proto-Germanic *brinkǭ, *brinkaz (“hill, edge (of land)”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“to project”). Cognate with Dutch brink (“grassland”), regional German Brink, Icelandic brekka (“slope”); also Tocharian B prenke (“island”), Irish braine (“prow”). See: Middle English Nouns '
brinke', Old Norse Nouns '
*brenka', Dutch Nouns '
brink', German Nouns '
Brink', Icelandic Nouns '
brekka', Irish Nouns '
braine'.
Verbs referencing "brink"
Dutch Nouns
brink, German Nouns
Brink.