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How to use hamlet in a sentence

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Hamlet means a small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village. Example: “Actually, I think they call it a "hamlet." That's how cute it is.”

Examples of hamlet by meaning

nounA small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village.

  • Actually, I think they call it a "hamlet." That's how cute it is.2023, Sam Esmail, Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind, spoken by Amanda (Julia Roberts)

nounAn unincorporated community of whatever size, lacking its own municipal government, but with defined boundaries.

  • Sherwood Park is a hamlet with a population of 35 500 while the rural area has a population exceeding 20 000 people.1993, John S. Marczyk, Denis B. Johnson, Sustainable Landscapes: Proceedings of the Third Symposium of the Canadian Society for Landscape...
  • The Village voted to dissolve into a hamlet within the ID, but retained its name.1998, Nancy Klos, The State of Unicity: 25 Years Later: Conference Proceedings (October 3-4, 1997), Institute of Urban Studies, →ISBN
  • In 1972, the village was dissolved, and the community became an organized hamlet.2008, David McLennan, Our Towns: Saskatchewan Communities from Abbey to Zenon Park, page 11

nounAny 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

More sentences with hamlet

  • The word means ‘hamlet people’ though its mere mention usually draws instant embarrassment.2011, Peter McGill, “Short Cuts”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII. From the entry burakumin
  • Gujiagou is a small hamlet in Wanquan County in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province.2011 November 4, Dongya Zhang, “Sexual struggle in the countryside”, in Beijing Today, number 543, →OCLC, page 19. From the entry Wanquan
  • Temecula, a quiet hamlet of golf courses and antique shops, was gripped by a mission.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 322. From the entry Temecula
  • This little hamlet of cute shops and cupcakeries is not like the rest of the country.2009 May 28, Mike Albo, “Spend Some Time, if Nothing Else”, in New York Times. From the entry cupcakery
  • Some of the largest pukaras had substantial villages and hamlets around their base.2003, Charles Stanish, Ancient Titicaca: The Evolution of Complex Society in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia, University of California…. From the entry pukara
  • The old hamlets, farmsteads, hermitages and mills have vanished without trace.1998, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley, Five Plays, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry odd
  • The house and its policies (grounds) lie between what were once two or three separate hamlets.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 277, about Strachur. From the entry policy
  • Atlantic gales constantly buffet Morwenstow, whose seven hamlets together constitute Cornwall's most northerly parish.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 288. From the entry buffet
  • A lane from the packhorse bridge leads to the attractive hamlet of Bubnell.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 53. From the entry Bubnell
  • On the south-western outskirts of the village is the picturesque hamlet of Tealby Thorpe.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 374, about Tealby. From the entry Tealby Thorpe
  • Kokyar lay inside with more than a hundred other villages and hamlets.1978, Hugh McLeave, A Borderline Case, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 148. From the entry Kokyar
  • Hamlet is bitter, evasive, now backfooting them, now attacking, now genial - their job isn't going to be easy.1996, Kenneth Branagh, “The Film diaries”, in Hamlet, page 188. From the entry backfoot
  • The causeways were laid as hard paths for heavily laden pack-animals bringing in wool from outlying hamlets and farms.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 58. From the entry outlying
  • Indian Queens is a hamlet just off the A30, a well-known traffic black spot, and Yellowknife was Margo Kidder's hometown in Canada.2019, Will Birch, Cruel To Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry black spot
  • The Party Secretary of Qiqiha'er, a hamlet up near the Siberian border, was devoured by a black bear last month it is rumoured.1998, Nicholas Jose, The Custodians, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175. From the entry Qiqiha'er
  • For a moment my colleague and I had imagined we were in a rural hamlet and in the heart of green England.1904 September, George R. Sims, “Off The Track in London V.--Round Hackney Wick”, in The Strand Magazine, London: George Newnes, Ltd.…. From the entry toodle-oo
  • Hamlet is fey, as heroes have been since the dawn of literature ; but was ever feydom so wonderfully set forth, or a doomed hero more adorable?2005, John Dover Wilson, What happens in Hamlet. From the entry feydom
  • Whitton Dene was what was known as an endship, that is it was a small suburb or hamlet joined to Whitton, but with its own little community.1983, Arthur Palmer, A History of Whitton, page 4. From the entry endship
  • The conquest of new territories made it possible for the Zarma society to settle in hamlets and develop a political organization that assumed the characteristics of a chiefery.1979, Bernardo Berdichewsky, Anthropology and Social Change in Rural Areas, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry chiefery
  • With regard to the station at Notgrove, it was finally decided that this should be situated beside the old Bourton-Cheltenham Road near the hamlet of Westfield.1955 August, J. Spencer Gilks, “The Banbury & Cheltenham Direct Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 524. From the entry Westfield
  • Just like the aforementioned consumer and durable products made their way into the remotest parts of the country, the smartphones are 4G-ing and WiFi-ing their way into the hamlets today.2017 July 5, Derek Abraham, “Vivo, Oppo, IPL, and the Chinese invasion of cricket”, in The Hindu. From the entry wifi

Meaning of hamlet

  1. noun A small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village.
  2. noun A village that does not have its own church.
  3. noun An unincorporated community of whatever size, lacking its own municipal government, but with defined boundaries.

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Questions about hamlet in a sentence

How do you use hamlet in a sentence?
Hamlet is used as a noun. For example: “Actually, I think they call it a "hamlet." That's how cute it is.”
What is a short sentence with hamlet?
“The old hamlets, farmsteads, hermitages and mills have vanished without trace.”
What does hamlet mean?
Hamlet means a small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village.

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