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 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 Travelers can expect to see the enormous Greenland ice sheets, icebergs, whales, and remote Inuit hamlets and settlements. Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hamlet 

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“Hamlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hamlet. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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