Thesaurus results for HAMLET

hamlet

noun

ˈham-lət

Definition of hamlet next

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 Located in the affluent Rockland County hamlet of New City in the Lower Hudson Valley, Brook House dates to 1880 and has been owned by just four families over the past 110 years. —

Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 May 2026 Quinten Quinten is the perfect hamlet for pedestrians. —

Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2026 Kelleys Island Venture Resort, Kelleys Island A pastel yellow exterior marks Kelleys Island Venture Resort, the only resort on this idyllic Lake Erie shore hamlet. —

Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026 From a practical standpoint, outstate cities, towns and hamlets either could not or did not want to spend more taxpayer money on new flags and seals and new paint jobs for public equipment. —

Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 2 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for hamlet

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village

Noun

That moniker comes from a violent 1967 peasant uprising against oppressive landlords in Naxalbari, a village in the shadow of the Himalayan foothills in northeast India.

— Dhruv Tikekar, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
Israel’s military issued evacuation warnings for more than a dozen villages in southern Lebanon, a day after Lebanese and Israeli military officials held their first direct talks in decades at the Pentagon.

— Ahmad Mantash, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026