hamlet

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈhæm.lɪt/]

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1. hamlet (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village.

Example: 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.

2. hamlet (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A village that does not have its own church.

Example: One hundred thirtie two thousand of Parish Churches, Hamlets, and Villages of all sorts.

3. hamlet (noun) — sense 3

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

Example: […] 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)

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