hamlet

noun

1. A small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village.

   “Coal′brookdale, a hamlet of England, co. of Salop, on a railway, 2 miles N. of Broseley, on the Severn. Pop. 1574, engaged in collieries, foundries, and fire-brick and tobacco-pipe manufactories.”

   “Georgetown, a hamlet in Frederick co., Md., on the Frederick & Pennsylvania Line Railroad, 6 miles N.E. of Frederick. It has 2 churches.”

   “No, no. It's a cute little town. Actually, I think they call it a "hamlet." That's how cute it is.”

2. (British)A village that does not have its own church.

   “The case stated, That Thomas G., the pauper, […] served that year at S.; which is a hamlet consisting of one house only, and between three and four hundred acres of land : that the said hamlet of S. had never contributed towards the relief of the poor of the parish of T., nor had ever been assessed thereto; but had always been assessed, and had always paid to the support of the parish church of T.: […]”

3. (Canada, specifically)An unincorporated community of whatever size, lacking its own municipal government, but with defined boundaries.

   “[…] Wessex county (a pseudonym) comprising rural area (pop. 8,434); four incorporated towns plus the section of land containing the largest hamlet in the county (pop. 2,489)”

   “By disincorporating, village residents would reduce their taxes by one third, even with a special debt recovery levy. The Improvement District, conversely, was only minimally effected by absorbing the Village. The Village voted to dissolve into a hamlet within the ID, but retained its name.”

   “In 1972, the village was dissolved, and the community became an organized hamlet.”

4. Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.
5. (uncountable)A protein complex of alpha-lactalbumin and oleic acid that induces apoptosis in tumor cells, but not in healthy cells.

name

1. A William Shakespeare play about the Danish royal family.
2. The eponymous main character of William Shakespeare's play, whose father's ghost, murdered by Hamlet's uncle, exhorts him to seek revenge.
3. A male given name.
4. A surname.
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13. A locality in Alberta, Canada, named after William Hamlet.
14. A settlement in Gittisham parish, East Devon district, Devon, England, just outside Honiton (OS grid ref SY1499).
15. A hamlet in Yetminster parish and Chetnole parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST5908).