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Noun

hamlet (plural hamlets)

1. A small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village.
   • Coal′brookdale, a hamlet of England, co. of Salop, on a railway, 2 miles N. of Broseley, on the Severn. Pop. 1574, engaged in collieries, foundries, and fire-brick and tobacco-pipe manufactories.1880, J.B. Lippincott Company, Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five...

   Synonyms:

   thorp

2. (UK) A village that does not have its own church.
   • One hundred thirtie two thousand of Parish Churches, Hamlets, and Villages of all sorts.1604, View of Frannce
3. (Canada, specifically) An unincorporated community of whatever size, lacking its own municipal government, but with defined boundaries.
   • […] Wessex county (a pseudonym) comprising rural area (pop. 8,434); four incorporated towns plus the section of land containing the largest hamlet in the county (pop. 2,489)1970, World Health Organization, World Health Organization/International Collaborative Study of Medical Care Utilization
4. Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.
   • Larval hamlets are similar to larval Serranus and spend several weeks in the plankton feeding on a variety of tiny crustaceans and invertebrates before metamorphosing and settling on to the reef.1980, Ronald E. Thresher, Reef Fish: Behavior and Ecology on the Reef and in the Aquarium

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