hamlet
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- noun
- /ˈhæmlɪt/
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- 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.
- And what we found is in rural Indian villages, in African shanty towns and Arctic Hamlets.
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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?
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Surely there must be a theater in this hamlet.
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Oh, you know, Billy, I was just your age when I first passed through this tiny hamlet.
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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.
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Indeed, for all we know, there are only two souls left uninfected in this once-happy hamlet.
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Our town of Peaks View was a sleepy little hamlet, tucked far away from the changes rocking the rest of the world.
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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.