Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small village.
- noun In New York state, an unincorporated community that is within a town and is not a part of a village.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the family Serranidæ, Epinephelus striatus, also called
Nassau grouper , common in the West Indies and along the Florida coast. It is chestnut-brown or slate-colored, with vermilion lips and throat. - noun A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country; especially, in England, a village without a church, which therefore for its ecclesiastical service belongs to the parish represented by another village. Compare
parish . - noun Synonyms See
town . - noun Gymnothorax moringa, an eel of the family Murænidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
village or a group of houses. - noun UK A village that does not have its own
church . - noun Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family
Serranidae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a settlement smaller than a town
- noun the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
- noun a community of people smaller than a village
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Based on the Victorian-era writings of Elizabeth Gaskell about a village in 1840s England on the brink of change, this three-part mini-series tells the story of a woman who moves to the title hamlet to live with her two spinster friends.
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I saw Hamlet several imes in theaters, real heaters, not movies one, as well as an old black and white movie version of it and i can tell you that Mel Gbsons incarnation of hamlet is the very best ever made .. which nobody believed he could at first .. being an aussie and all that .. lol surprise!
Robert De Niro Joining Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Under all that snow, a quaint mountain hamlet forms.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Under all that snow, a quaint mountain hamlet forms.
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The picturesque hamlet is actually a community of geniuses assembled by the government to conduct top-secret research.
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The raids came late Saturday night, just before midnight, when police swarmed a home rented by the biathlon team near the mountain hamlet of San Sicario; a similar search was conducted at quarters in nearby Pragelato.
USATODAY.com - Problems follow Austrian ski coach across the border 2006
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In a mountain hamlet nestled into the French Alps at Queyras, we drank café-au-lait* from gigantic ceramic bowls, slathered homemade confiture de mûres* over fat slices of buttered bread and talked about how well we slept the night before.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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In a mountain hamlet nestled into the French Alps at Queyras, we drank café-au-lait* from gigantic ceramic bowls, slathered homemade confiture de mûres* over fat slices of buttered bread and talked about how well we slept the night before.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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"Strategic hamlet" is a replication of Britain's villagization program in Kenya.
The Secret History 2005
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In a mountain hamlet nestled into the French Alps at Queyras, we drank café-au-lait* from gigantic ceramic bowls, slathered homemade confiture de mûres* over fat slices of buttered bread and talked about how well we slept the night before.
sionnach commented on the word hamlet
Meat obtained from a piglet.
July 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word hamlet
In the sense of village, has a common origin with home.
November 8, 2024