hamlet

noun

ˈham-lət How to pronounce hamlet (audio)
Definition of hamletnext
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 Among those evacuated were around 250 people from El Porvenir and the hamlet of Las Lajitas. — ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026 The Manzano siblings were born in a rural hamlet nestled in the foothills of the Picos de Europa called La Salgar, where their parents ran a bar on the ground floor of their cottage. — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026 In Allagash, a hamlet of some 200 people near Canada, residents are sharply divided over Troy Jackson. — Alexei Koseff, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2026 In the hamlet of Cataract, in Caledon, about an hour’s drive north of Toronto, the Liberty Inn has transformed a stone post office built in 1855 into a five-suite retreat. — Victoria Malloy, Air Mail, 1 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hamlet
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village
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  • All 1,800 residents of the village of Gey in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia state were evacuated after a wildfire in the nearby Hürtgen forest threatened to reach their homes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • While the village initially questioned whether CSquare had permits for the temporary generators, Smetana noted the permit for the temporary chiller unit indicated it would be powered by a temporary generator.
    — Alicia Fabbre, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of village

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