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 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 Each December, the southwestern hamlet of Gegenbach turns its town hall into one giant advent calendar. Eric Deggans, NPR, 1 Dec. 2024 On November 10, Russian soldiers attacked a Ukrainian fortress in the hamlet of Novodmytrivka, capturing the two men. Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024 Places in Sonoma and Marin counties, led by the famously wet, rural wooded hamlet of Venado in northern Sonoma County, along with mountaintops farther south. Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 25 Nov. 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 26 Dec. 2024.

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