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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Property owners must clear a 164-foot radius around an isolated house, and 328 feet around a hamlet.
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Essex Glen is in Centerbrook, a hamlet of the town of Essex, where shopping, dining, banking and other business needs are within easy reach.
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The volcano exploded Sunday, sending ash high into the sky and lava flows cascading into rural hamlets on the mountain's slopes.
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Medina was the commanding officer of Charlie Company, in the Americal Division’s 11th Infantry Brigade, when the unit was tasked with securing a Vietnamese hamlet in 1968.
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Lazzaro lives in Inviolata, a tiny hamlet that feels completely isolated in the hills (though Rome isn’t all that far away).
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New satellite images have shown empty villages and hamlets leveled, erasing evidence of the Rohingya’s former lives.
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None of this is meant as a knock on these two coastal hamlets, which are just a stone’s throw apart along the coast of Bolinas Bay.
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The state's most statistically improbable winner this year: Sebastian Hobbs of Lostine, a Northeast Oregon hamlet of about 200 people.
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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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