: a legendary Danish prince and hero of Shakespeare's play Hamlet
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Noun (1)
she always longed to return to the quiet hamlet where she had been born
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Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Here’s one sign of the escalation: In September 2023, B’Tselem reported that over the previous two years, about 480 Palestinians had abandoned their homes and fled from six hamlets in the West Bank, in large part because of settler attacks.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
In this nearly 22,000-acre park, travelers can walk trails up to high farming hamlets beneath cathedrals of rock or over the Albanian Alps massif and down into the beech and fir forests of Theth.
—Phoebe Smith, AFAR Media, 18 Dec. 2024
Beyond the movie's heartwarming plotline, there's certainly cause for love at first sight in Nevada City, a hamlet outside of Sacramento, Calif., that was first settled in 1849 as a mining camp and has retained much of its original charm.
—Sophie Dodd, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Bridgehampton, a hamlet nestled between Southampton and East Hampton, uniquely combines the best of these worlds.
—Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Here’s one sign of the escalation: In September 2023, B’Tselem reported that over the previous two years, about 480 Palestinians had abandoned their homes and fled from six hamlets in the West Bank, in large part because of settler attacks.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
In this nearly 22,000-acre park, travelers can walk trails up to high farming hamlets beneath cathedrals of rock or over the Albanian Alps massif and down into the beech and fir forests of Theth.
—Phoebe Smith, AFAR Media, 18 Dec. 2024
Beyond the movie's heartwarming plotline, there's certainly cause for love at first sight in Nevada City, a hamlet outside of Sacramento, Calif., that was first settled in 1849 as a mining camp and has retained much of its original charm.
—Sophie Dodd, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Hamlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hamlet. Accessed 3 Jan. 2025.
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hamlet
noun
ham·let
ˈham-lət 
: a small village
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