as in village
a small residential settlement she always longed to return to the quiet hamlet where she had been born

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Recent Examples of hamlet Selden is a Long Island hamlet in the town of Brookhaven. Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025 Is Stowe still a sleepy hamlet tucked into the hills? Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2025 There, isolated hamlets are camouflaged among forests of oak, and their residents survive, as did generations before them, on whatever the land and sea provide. Rachel Howard, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025 The fish belonged to a family called hamlets, a group that has proven difficult to study. Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hamlet
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village
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  • India evacuates thousands of people from villages near the highly militarized frontier in the Kashmir region.
    Riazat Butt, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
  • Where to watch: Peacock 'The Damned' In the freaky psychological horror tale, a 19th-century widow (Odessa Young) heads up a remote fishing village in the Arctic.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 May 2025

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“Hamlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hamlet. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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