Definition of hamlet
: a small village
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Examples of hamlet in a Sentence
she always longed to return to the quiet hamlet where she had been born
Recent Examples of hamlet from the Web
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As the Earp heir, Wynonna is fated to protect the hamlet of Purgatory — and the world — from the demons that bedevil the town.
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Tucked among surf shops and delis on the seaside hamlet’s Main Street, the shop marks the second brick-and-mortar location for the beauty retailer.
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The young family ended up in the southwestern Wisconsin hamlet of Burton, sponsored by the families of St. Paul Lutheran, where my father later preached.
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The tiny seaside hamlet of Trinidad sits right in their backyard.
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If the sceney goings on of a certain seaside hamlet is not your cup of tea, consider Bellport, New York.
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One rose lover who needs no convincing is Connie Hilker, who lives in an 1848 brick Gothic house in the Stafford County, Va., hamlet of Hartwood.
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Hernandez was talking to his father, Margarito Hernandez, on the phone when millions of tons of volcanic ash tore through San Miguel Los Lotes, a hamlet sitting on the volcano's slope.
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The bodies were recovered in the hamlets of Los Lotes and El Rodeo.
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Origin and Etymology of hamlet
Middle English, from Anglo-French hamelet, diminutive of ham village, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hām village, home
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First Known Use: before 12th century
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See Words from the same yearDefinition of Hamlet
: a legendary Danish prince and hero of Shakespeare's play Hamlet
First Known Use of hamlet
1601
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