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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 rural community of the book is a West Virginia mining hamlet.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 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

A while later, when we moved out of the hamlet, she was still dancing.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien




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