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hamlet
ham‧let/ˈhæmlət, ˈhæmlɪt/ noun [COUNTABLE] [date : 1300-1400; Language : Old French; Origin : hamelet, from ham 'village'] a very small village
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADJECTIVE small ▪ Burton, which has the large medieval church, is a very small hamlet. ▪ It was de-signed to give us the courage, as temporary civil rights workers, to penetrate the small hamlets farther south. ▪ After a mile, the road passes through a small hamlet. ▪ This gets us to Santa Catarina, a small inland hamlet. ▪ There used to be two small hamlets just outside but part of the village, known as Mill Cottages and Pry Cottages. ▪ Over eighty-five percent of these are scattered throughout the country in small villages and hamlets. ▪ Everyone who was living in a small hamlet on the lake's edge fled into the forest at news of their approach. ▪ Alongside the villages with their surrounding lands there were small hamlets and isolated farmsteads. tiny ▪ Seven farms had been enclosed in 1512 in a move that must effectively have crippled this tiny hamlet. ▪ She plays Beth, a transplanted Los Angeles teen trying to adjust to her new life in a tiny Washington state hamlet. ▪ Our story really begins in 1575, on a wet and blustery night in the tiny hamlet of Shefford Woodlands. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Both lived in Coahoma, a hamlet of about 1, 200 residents 10 miles to the east of Big Spring. ▪ He told those responsible their hamlet would burn if it happened again. ▪ His repressions were too blatant, his strategic hamlet and land-reform programs had too obviously failed. ▪ Its total population in the mid-nineteenth century was probably in excess of many medieval hamlets or even small villages. ▪ The western hamlet has survived with the present parish church of St Nicholas.
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