hamlet
/ˈhæm.lət/ noun C1- A small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village or town with usually under two hundred people.
- An unincorporated community of whatever size, lacking its own municipal government, but with defined boundaries.
- Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.
Plural hamlets
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At his advice, on the afternoon of the 4th we set off together, with the intention of crossing the hills and spending the night at the hamlet of Rosenlaui.
This small clump of buildings here is the hamlet of Grimpen, where our friend Dr.
It was a pleasant walk of four miles along the edge of the moor, leading me at last to a small grey hamlet, in which two larger buildings, which proved to be the inn and the house of Dr.
Sometimes, as Hamlet says:
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