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hamlet

hamlet

24 5.0
A very small group of houses in the countryside
  • noun
  • /ˈhæmlɪt/
: aldea
  • In the heart of the countryside lies a quaint hamlet with a few charming cottages.
  • a small hamlet
  • a rural hamlet
  • neighboring hamlets

And what we found is in rural Indian villages, in African shanty towns and Arctic Hamlets.

Examples

  • Mimouna is a very beautiful young woman who lives in a small hamlet in southern Morocco.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • A long, late breakfast and then a drive to one of the hamlets sprinkled around San Antonio.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • In the next hamlet, I would go into the first house I came to.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • - Well, how do you like our little hamlet?

    The Birds (1963)

  • Surely there must be a theater in this hamlet.

    Gypsy (1962)

  • Oh, you know, Billy, I was just your age when I first passed through this tiny hamlet.

    Here (2024)

  • The new tenant was a contractor who owned a house in a hamlet two or three miles away.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • It exists in almost every city and hamlet in the country.

    Tell Your Children (1938)

  • Indeed, for all we know, there are only two souls left uninfected in this once-happy hamlet.

    Night of the Living Deb (2015)

  • Our town of Peaks View was a sleepy little hamlet, tucked far away from the changes rocking the rest of the world.

    A Plumm Summer (2008)

Synonyms

podunk
vshamlet
  • Informal
4 9.9

A small, boring town far from big cities

is a neutral term for a very small settlement without governance
thorpe
vshamlet
  • Archaic
9.9

A small village or group of houses often found in English place names

is the common general word for a very small settlement

Antonyms

city
∞ 1.0

A large town where many people live and work that has its own local government

town
∞ 1.0

A place where people live that is bigger than a village but smaller than a city

metropolis
175 5.2

A very large important city that is the main center in a region or country

How Big

city
∞ 1.0
town
∞ 1.0
village
∞ 1.0
hamlet
24 5.0

Surface Forms

hamlet singular
hamlets plural

Etymology

The word hamlet comes from an old word ham, meaning 'home', plus the ending -let, meaning 'small', as in piglet. So a hamlet is literally a 'small home' or a tiny group of houses, which is why it means a very small settlement.