Word.ws English Dictionary

dangling link

dangling link noun: a URL which does not point to any webpage or file; a dead link.

Noun

dangling link (plural dangling links)

  1. (Internet) A URL which does not point to any webpage or file; a dead link.
    • Earlier hypertext arrangements kept a record of every single link in the system to avoid "dangling links" — links pointing to nothing. But creating the Web at scale meant users would have to be able to delete documents without telling every single other user about the deletion, even if that...2014 November 12, Alex Fitzpatrick, “4 Things You Might Not Have Known About the World Wide Web's Inventor”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023

Forms of dangling link

pluraldangling links

Questions about dangling link

What does dangling link mean?
Dangling link means a URL which does not point to any webpage or file; a dead link.
What part of speech is dangling link?
Dangling link is a noun.
What is the plural of dangling link?
The plural of dangling link is dangling links.

Words near dangling link in the dictionary

  1. danglin'
  2. dangling
  3. dangling after
  4. dangling else
  5. dangling elses
  6. dangling link
  7. dangling links
  8. dangling modifier
  9. dangling modifiers
  10. dangling participle
  11. dangling participles

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dangling link (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dangling link.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dangling_link. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.