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 The sister of another organizer, Luis Ramírez, watched a live Facebook video of their hamlet’s festivities from her New Jersey home. Giovanna Dell'orto, Twin Cities, 20 Jan. 2025 The hamlet was previously known as Kopernik Shores, and SpaceX purchased nearly all of the approximately 35 ranch homes in the area. Robert A. Kopack, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025 Historically nomadic herders, many Bedouins now reside in a constellation of cities and hamlets throughout southern Israel, some of which lack basic government services like running water and electricity. Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025 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 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 1 Mar. 2025.

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