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hamlet

[ham-lit] / ˈhæm lɪt /
NOUN
small village
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There’s a whole English hamlet full of them.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

Six years ago, the town of Chrey Thom was little more than a trading hamlet on Cambodia’s border with Vietnam.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

The entire hamlet can only operate if Flores’ regular gasoline deliveries make it through on Highway 1 every two weeks.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Ms Smith said she had ordered oil for her parents, who live in a remote hamlet between Milford Haven and Neyland without an internet connection, for years without issue.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Whitcross is no town, nor even a hamlet; it is but a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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