: a legendary Danish prince and hero of Shakespeare's play Hamlet
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Noun (1)
she always longed to return to the quiet hamlet where she had been born
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David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 10 Feb. 2025
The most recent addition to the cozy-town canon is Serenity, S.C., the sweet Southern hamlet featured on Netflix's Sweet Magnolias.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2025
Stay Here: The Thinking Traveller’s ‘Citrus’ villa is located in a waterfront hamlet on Plakes beach, about three kilometers west of the port town.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2025
The telltale signs of a community built with money earned abroad are unmistakable in this mountain hamlet.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2025
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Noun
To those who recognize the hamlet as little more than the home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown may seem like an unusual place for a pair of cosmopolitan Danes to settle.
—David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 10 Feb. 2025
The most recent addition to the cozy-town canon is Serenity, S.C., the sweet Southern hamlet featured on Netflix's Sweet Magnolias.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2025
Stay Here: The Thinking Traveller’s ‘Citrus’ villa is located in a waterfront hamlet on Plakes beach, about three kilometers west of the port town.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2025
The telltale signs of a community built with money earned abroad are unmistakable in this mountain hamlet.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Hamlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hamlet. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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hamlet
noun
ham·let
ˈham-lət 
: a small village
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