Definition of hamletnext
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 Turn one last corner and a stone fortress comes into view, a crown atop the sleepy hamlet of Migiana. Laura May Todd, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2025 From cozy nooks to haute cuisine, Lech’s culinary scene extends across the hamlet. Elycia Rubin, HollywoodReporter, 19 Dec. 2025 Wake Up Dead Man, the third film in Rian Johnson's Knives Out franchise, is set in a small community in upstate New York, the kind of tranquil hamlet with more churches than homes. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025 Under other circumstances, the 48-year-old semi-retired husband and father of three’s passion project would never even be a blip on the radar of anyone outside this quiet, secluded hamlet, with perhaps the exception of the power company. Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 10 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hamlet
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village
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  • The flow of goods allowed the village to connect with the outside world and flourish during the Middle Ages.
    Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • All together, this combination of costumes and period dance — with waltz music by Johann Strauss I — created a vision of a long-ago time in Europe or America, when balls and village dances provided a key way for people to socialize.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026

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“Hamlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hamlet. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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