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hamlet

[ham-lit] / ˈhæm lɪt /
NOUN
small village
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Just outside Spalding, The Ship Inn pub stands by the River Welland in the small hamlet of Surfleet Seas End.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Flooding from Storm Chandra in the hamlet of Weycroft on January 27, 2026 in Axminster, England.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The smoke triggered evacuations in one Belgian village and two hamlets of a second -- with residents of the hamlet of Sourbrodt given the green light to return home on Monday night.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

But if you drive the river road past Monte Rio and the historic but touristy shops at Duncans Mills, you reach the coastal hamlet of Jenner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

We reached the far end of the hamlet.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

Small towns, villages and hamlets -- home to around half of the central European nation's 9.5 million people -- have long been the bastion of the ruling Fidesz party.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

Her family moved more than 10 times, from Chicago to working-class hamlets in southern New Jersey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

This part of rural Victoria is dotted with small towns and hamlets, which may at first appear quite isolated.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025

Baldy Village and other mountain hamlets — and more than 1,000 structures are still threatened by the fire, officials said Wednesday night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

The cluster of cities and hamlets around the harbor of Hampton Roads—Newport News and Hampton to the north, Portsmouth, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach to the south—boiled over with in-migrants.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly


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