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 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 Studio executives and agents have been frustrated by the high cost of sending people to Park City, while some locals have grown disenchanted with the influx of fans and press into their tiny hamlet. Matt Donnelly, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hamlet
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  • Four people were killed after a vehicle crashed into an after-school camp in a small Illinois village on Monday, according to local officials.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • For months, the drama happening elsewhere in the country had imposed itself on set: First the rapid-fire disintegration of the ruling regime in December; then, in March, a spate of sectarian massacres in villages just a few dozen miles away from Kasheesh.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025

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“Hamlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hamlet. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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