Podunk

noun

Definition of Podunknext
as in hamlet

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  1. hamlet
  2. village
  3. cow town
Noun
  • Studio executives and agents have been frustrated by the high cost of sending people to Park City, while some locals have grown disenchanted with the influx of fans and press into their tiny hamlet.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Two-year-old Émile Soleil disappeared from his grandparents’ garden in Le Haut-Vernet, a hamlet in the French Alps, in July 2023.
    — CNN’s Saskya Vandoorne and Lisa Klaassen, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
Definition of hamlet
Noun
  • He was brought to a torture chamber in the nearby village of Balaklia, where many of those detained passed through, prosecutors in the Kharkiv region told ABC News.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2025
  • One of these modernist gems just popped up for sale on the suburban outskirts of Los Angeles, in the quaint village of Sierra Madre.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2025
Definition of village
Noun
  • If Great Bend failed to achieve the notoriety of Dodge City or other cow towns, Moses’s fellow citizens gave him much of the credit.
    — Katy Roberts, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • And while Livingston is far from a cow town — more like a fancy-fly-rod-and-real-estate town — Campione still stands out.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
Definition of cow town
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“Podunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Podunk. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.

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