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hamlet en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈhæm.lɪt/ (Canada, UK)
  • /ˈhæm.lət/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *tḱéytibf. Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz Frankish *haimbor. Old French ham Old French hamel Old French hameletbor. Middle English hamlet English hamlet From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel, in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *haim, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (whence English home). Equivalent to Middle English ham (“home, village”) + -let (“small”).

Meanings

  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 Thousand Places, page 510:
    • Georgetown, a hamlet in Frederick co., Md., on the Frederick & Pennsylvania Line Railroad, 6 miles N.E. of Frederick. It has 2 churches. 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 Thousand Places, page 843:
    • No, no. It's a cute little town. 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):
  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:
    • Hunsley is a hamlet in the parish of Rowley. 1888, Thomas Burton, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hemingsbrough in the County of York, page 172:
    • The case stated, That Thomas G., the pauper, […] served that year at S.; which is a hamlet consisting of one house only, and between three and four hundred acres of land : that the said hamlet of S. had never contributed towards the relief of the poor of the parish of T., nor had ever been assessed thereto; but had always been assessed, and had always paid to the support of the parish church of T.: […] 1827, E. Bott, edited by John Tidd Pratt, The Laws Relating to the Poor, Including the Collections Originally Made by E. Bott ... and Afterwards Edited by F. Const ... The Sixth Edition: in which the Statutes and Cases to Hilary Term 1827 are Arranged Under Their Respective Heads ..., volume 2, page 662:
  3. (Canada, specifically) An unincorporated community of whatever size, lacking its own municipal government, but with defined boundaries.
    • By disincorporating, village residents would reduce their taxes by one third, even with a special debt recovery levy. The Improvement District, conversely, was only minimally effected by absorbing the Village. 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:
    • […] 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:
    • 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:
    • 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 Ecology and Management, University of Alberta, June 1992:
  4. Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.
    • Shy Hamlet […] The back of this hamlet is dark in some specimens but a much bluer shade in others. […] Amazingly, each fish is a hermaphrodite, possessing both male and female sex organs, so any two Shy Hamlets should be able to mate successfully. 2019 February 12, David Alderton, Encyclopedia of Aquarium and Pond Fish, Penguin, →ISBN, page 272:
    • 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:
    • Lastly, we get to the things that you should be able to keep with tridacnines without worrying. […] There should be no problems with any of the grammas, groupers, hamlets, hawkfishes, or jawfishes, either. 2023, James W. Fatherree, Giant Clams in the Reef Aquarium: Biology, Identification, and Care, James W Fatherree, →ISBN, page 158:

Forms

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hamlets Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

Broughton Hamlet · subhamlet · Clint cum Hamlets · Stockley Hamlet · hamleted · Tower Hamlets · Dawley Hamlets · Bures Hamlet · interhamlet · Okehampton Hamlets · hamleteer · Crediton Hamlets · Holsworthy Hamlets · hamletted · Blaise Hamlet

Hypernyms

settlement

Synonyms

thorp

Translations (140)

pl sioło (small village) · uk сільце́ (small village) · sl zaselek (small village) · lt vakos (fish) · sh насеље (small village) · de Weiler (small village) · pl osada (village without its own church) · ru ху́тор (village without its own church) · la vīcus (small village) · vi xóm (small village) · ast llugar (small village) · cs kolonie (small village) · de Hamletbarsche (fish) · ja 村落 (small village) · sh zaselak (small village) · yo abà (small village) · hy գյուղակ (small village) · et küla (small village) · fi kylä (as opposed to kirkonkylä) (village without its own church) · gv balley beg (small village) · uk ху́тір (small village) · la vīculus (small village) · cs vesnička (village without its own church) · af gehug (small village) · da bygd (village without its own church) · mk се́лце (small village) · it casale (village without its own church) · no landsby (small village) · ka სოფელი (small village) · mk за́селок (small village) · pt aldeia (small village) · he כפרון \ פַּרְוָן (small village) · cs osada (small village) · cy pentref bach (small village) · da bygd (small village) · sl vasica (small village) · pt arraial (small village) · sh сеоце (small village) · pl Hypoplectrus (fish) · nl negorij (small village) · fo smábygd (small village) · es aldehuela (small village) · lv sādža (small village) · hu aprófalu (small village) · it borgo (small village) · ko 마을 (small village) · hi पल्ली (small village) · es aldea (village without its own church) · es caserío (small village) · mwl aldé (small village) · te పల్లె (village without its own church) · ru сельцо́ (small village) · nl uithoek (small village) · fr hameau (village without its own church) · de Dorf (small village) · da landsby (small village) · ga gráig (small village) · ru дере́вня (village without its own church) · hu törpefalu (small village) · hi पुरवा (small village) · es serranidae hypoplectrus (fish) · yo ìletò (small village) · it borgata (small village) · es villar (small village) · oc masatge (small village) · pt aldeola (small village) · it villaggio (small village) · sv by (village without its own church) · sh naselje (small village) · yi דערפֿל (small village) · hy շեն (small village) · gl poubea (small village) · sh seoce (small village) · nl gehucht (small village) · ru ху́тор (small village) · ast llugar (village without its own church) · pl przysiółek (small village) · pt aldeota (small village) · es pueblito (small village) · ca poblet (small village) · fo bygd (small village) · sv hypoplectrus (fish) · be вёсачка (small village) · hi खेड़ा (small village) · io vilajeto (small village) · it frazione (small village) · gl aldea (small village) · gsw Wihr (small village) · pt lugarejo (small village) · it località (small village) · ckt нымным (small village) · cmn 部落無教會的小村莊 /部落无教会的小村庄 (village without its own church) · eo vilaĝeto (small village) · bg селце́ (small village) · ja ハムレット (fish) · ja 集落 (small village) · sa ग्राम (small village) · ka სოფელი (village without its own church) · lv ciems (small village) · fi pikkukylä (small village) · cmn 村莊 /村庄 (small village) · no grend (small village) · ja 小村 (village without its own church) · be ху́тар (small village) · fr hameau (small village) · cop ⲉⲡⲟⲓⲕⲓⲟⲛ (small village) · cop ϫⲉⲫⲣⲟ (small village) · sh заселак (small village) · id kampung (small village) · gl lugar (small village) · fa دهکده (small village) · ru дереву́шка (small village) · sv by (small village) · yo abúlé (small village) · gl vilar (small village) · nl (boeren)gat (small village) · fi Hypoplectrus (fish) · cmn 小村 (small village) · hu (esp. farmstead) tanya (small village) · el χωριουδάκι (small village) · tr mezra (small village) · ga gráig (village without its own church) · ko 촌락 (small village) · km កូនភូមិ (small village) · cs dědina (village without its own church) · mk ка́тун (small village) · gl casal (small village) · cs dědinka (small village) · uk присі́лочок (small village) · az oba (small village) · et küla (village without its own church) · eu herrixka (small village) · fi kyläpahanen (small village) · yo egurè (small village) · it casale (small village) · hu falucska (small village) · te పల్లెటూరు (small village) · es aldea (small village) · cs víska (small village) · de Kaff (small village)