noun

• A small village or a group of houses.
• (Britain) A village that does not have its own church.
• Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.
• A William Shakespeare play about the Danish royal family.
• The eponymous main character of William Shakespeare's play, whose father's ghost, murdered by Hamlet's uncle, exhorts him to seek revenge.
• A male given name.
• A surname.
• A number of places in the United States:
• An unincorporated community in Marin County, California.
• An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Illinois.
• A town in Starke County, Indiana, named after John Hamlet.
• A village in Hayes County, Nebraska, so-named as it was regarded as a hamlet.
• A hamlet in Chautauqua County, New York.
• A city in Richmond County, North Carolina.
• An unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon, regarded as a hamlet.
• An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, so-named for its small size.
• A locality in Alberta, Canada, named after William Hamlet.
• (biochemistry) A protein complex of alpha-lactalbumin and oleic acid that induces apoptosis in tumor cells, but not in healthy cells.