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Recent Examples of hamlets
Here are our 7 favorite small adventure towns around the world, from coastal enclaves to alpine hamlets.
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Jen Murphy, Outside, 7 Jan. 2026
Several small hamlets have been renovated into luxury hotels, such as Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2025
The route cuts across rolling farmland, oak woods and medieval hamlets, passing vineyards, monasteries and stone bridges along the way.
—Laura May Todd, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2025
My favorite part of the job was riding my bicycle out to remote hamlets to check on the children.
—Janet Rich Edwards, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
The Sandringham estate is vast, some 20,000 acres with about 150 properties, including villages and hamlets.
—Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 22 Nov. 2025
In the meantime, the school is sending teachers to give lessons in smaller underground spaces in the hamlets.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
Yet Massie’s partnership with Paul could pay off anyway, in a district that hugs the Ohio River and includes the Cincinnati suburbs and tiny hamlets like Mount Olivet.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
One is to take a round-trip boat cruise across it, passing lakeside hamlets and villages atop steep mountainsides.
—AFAR Media, 24 Sep. 2025
Jen Murphy, Outside, 7 Jan. 2026
Several small hamlets have been renovated into luxury hotels, such as Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2025
The route cuts across rolling farmland, oak woods and medieval hamlets, passing vineyards, monasteries and stone bridges along the way.
—Laura May Todd, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2025
My favorite part of the job was riding my bicycle out to remote hamlets to check on the children.
—Janet Rich Edwards, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
The Sandringham estate is vast, some 20,000 acres with about 150 properties, including villages and hamlets.
—Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 22 Nov. 2025
In the meantime, the school is sending teachers to give lessons in smaller underground spaces in the hamlets.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
Yet Massie’s partnership with Paul could pay off anyway, in a district that hugs the Ohio River and includes the Cincinnati suburbs and tiny hamlets like Mount Olivet.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
One is to take a round-trip boat cruise across it, passing lakeside hamlets and villages atop steep mountainsides.
—AFAR Media, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hamlets
villages
Noun
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Many did not experience concentration camps but were forced to flee villages and towns as Nazi forces advanced, destroying homes and killing millions.—
Hannah Kliger,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Islamists battled for their own theocratic nation, and bands of Christian cultists—whom locals, naming them according to their most notorious act, called chop-chop—severed the heads of those deemed unholy in villages and towns across Mindanao.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Hamlets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hamlets. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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