: 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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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
The journey’s crescendo is a private flight over the Richardson mountain range to Tuktoyaktuk, an Inuit hamlet on the shores of the Arctic Ocean.
—Marc Telio, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2024
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
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Noun
Archaeologists discovered numerous traces of the medieval hamlet, including cooking pots, storage vases, millstones used to grind grain, and carbonized remnants of cereal grains and legumes.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
The journey’s crescendo is a private flight over the Richardson mountain range to Tuktoyaktuk, an Inuit hamlet on the shores of the Arctic Ocean.
—Marc Telio, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2024
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
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“Hamlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hamlet. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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hamlet
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ham·let
ˈham-lət 
: a small village
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