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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

Dawn Kerr, 56, from Musselburgh, and her husband Andrew Searle, 62, died at their home in the hamlet of Les Pesquies, south-west France.

From BBC • May 6, 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 rumble of jets and hum of drones "come from everywhere. Especially at night", he told AFP in the hamlet of Barsirini, dozens of kilometres from the border.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

It was a hamlet, the same thatched roofs, the same smell of burnt bamboo.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers




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