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 Kyiv’s forces to give up a series of towns, villages and hamlets. Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024 Tlaquepaque is a collection of Spanish-style buildings reminiscent of a Mexican hamlet. Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024 Curiously, Ronkonkoma is a hamlet in Queens, which is where Charles’s sister and her husband Mike live. Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024 The tiny hamlet of Berkeley Springs, less than two hours from Baltimore and Washington, D.C., is revered as one of the nation’s first warm-spring wellness retreats, with famous patrons like George Washington frequenting the area. Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 6 Oct. 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 21 Nov. 2024.

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