hamlet
1 of 2noun (1)
ham·let ˈham-lət 
: a small village
Hamlet
2 of 2noun (2)
Ham·let ˈham-lət
: a legendary Danish prince and hero of Shakespeare's play Hamlet
Synonyms
Noun (1)
- bourg
- townlet
- vill
- village
- whistle-stop
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Example Sentences
Noun (1) she always longed to return to the quiet hamlet where she had been born
Recent Examples on the Web
Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022 The Bismarck Tribune reports the hamlet is little more than a community hall and an old schoolhouse. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2022 Jillian Wiener, 21, and Lindsay Wiener, 19, of Potomac were staying in the eastern Long Island hamlet of Noyac with their parents and brother when the fire broke out early Wednesday morning, Fox5NY reported. Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 4 Aug. 2022 The fire torched the scenic hamlet of Klamath River, home to about 200 people before last week, destroying its community hall, grocery store and post office. Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022 Cultural crosscurrents — akin to the warm and cold fronts that TV meteorologists point to — had collided over a hamlet on the Lake Michigan shoreline, 35 miles north of Chicago. Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2022 The hamlet, which was a ruin just a couple of decades ago, has been fully restored and its houses sold to new occupants. Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 30 June 2022 The 14-bedroom, roughly 22,000-square-foot estate is located in the hamlet of St. James, about halfway between New York City and the Hamptons on Long Island’s North Shore, said listing agent Shawn Elliott of Nest Seekers International. Sarah Paynter, WSJ, 25 May 2022 Only accessible by foot, or boat, the isolated hamlet of Ginostra lies on a secluded flank of the volcanic isle of Stromboli, part of Sicily's Aeolian archipelago. Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022 See More
Noun
Use the hamlet of Strawberry as a base camp for Rim Country adventures. Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022 The Bismarck Tribune reports the hamlet is little more than a community hall and an old schoolhouse. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2022 Jillian Wiener, 21, and Lindsay Wiener, 19, of Potomac were staying in the eastern Long Island hamlet of Noyac with their parents and brother when the fire broke out early Wednesday morning, Fox5NY reported. Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 4 Aug. 2022 The fire torched the scenic hamlet of Klamath River, home to about 200 people before last week, destroying its community hall, grocery store and post office. Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022 Cultural crosscurrents — akin to the warm and cold fronts that TV meteorologists point to — had collided over a hamlet on the Lake Michigan shoreline, 35 miles north of Chicago. Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2022 The hamlet, which was a ruin just a couple of decades ago, has been fully restored and its houses sold to new occupants. Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 30 June 2022 The 14-bedroom, roughly 22,000-square-foot estate is located in the hamlet of St. James, about halfway between New York City and the Hamptons on Long Island’s North Shore, said listing agent Shawn Elliott of Nest Seekers International. Sarah Paynter, WSJ, 25 May 2022 Only accessible by foot, or boat, the isolated hamlet of Ginostra lies on a secluded flank of the volcanic isle of Stromboli, part of Sicily's Aeolian archipelago. Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English, from Anglo-French hamelet, diminutive of ham village, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hām village, home
First Known Use
Noun (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Noun (2)
1601, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
hamlet
noun
ham·let ˈham-lət
: a small village
hamlet
noun
as in village
a small residential settlement she always longed to return to the quiet hamlet where she had been born Synonyms & Similar Words
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