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hamlet

/ˈhæm.lət/noun2 syllables

Hamlet means: a community of people smaller than a village.

Synonyms for hamlet3

noun, as in a community of people smaller than a village

noun, as in a settlement smaller than a town

also used for hamlet

thorp

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What does hamlet mean?3

noun

1

a community of people smaller than a village

2

a settlement smaller than a town

3

the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Hamlet in a sentence

  • Hamlet is very much a man who can't make up his mind.al_ex_an_der
  • Better to be a dog in a city than a man in a hamlet.sabretou
  • Hamlet is a person who tends to contemplate more than act.Miktsoanit
  • I imagine a little hamlet in a valley...Eccles17
  • It was a tiny hamlet of only a dozen people.CM
  • I live in a hamlet of around a hundred souls.zogwarg
  • Hamlet is a person more prone to contemplate than to act.Miktsoanit
  • In the film, the director makes Hamlet an active person.secnyt

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Forms of hamlet

as a noun

plural
hamlets