hamlet
IPA: hˈæmɫʌt
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.
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Examples of "hamlet" in Sentences
- The hamlet has an idyllic location.
- Bit by bit, the population of the hamlet dwindled.
- Nearby, to the east, is the small hamlet of Bedlam.
- Under all that snow, a quaint mountain hamlet forms.
- The hamlet was not the earliest settlement in the area.
- The parish includes the hamlets of East Town and Rood Ashton.
- The hinge of the French line consisted of the small hamlet of Fontenoy.
- The small town mentality intrigues and conflicts continue in the hamlet.
- The civil parish includes the hamlet of Shellbrook to the west of the town.
- High Lane lies to the south, with the small hamlet of Turf Lea to the east.
- At in elevation, the closest hamlet is Alcove, part of the town of Coeymans.
- "Strategic hamlet" is a replication of Britain's villagization program in Kenya.
- The picturesque hamlet is actually a community of geniuses assembled by the government to conduct top-secret research.
- The raids came late Saturday night, just before midnight, when police swarmed a home rented by the biathlon team near the mountain hamlet of San Sicario; a similar search was conducted at quarters in nearby Pragelato.
- Based on the Victorian-era writings of Elizabeth Gaskell about a village in 1840s England on the brink of change, this three-part mini-series tells the story of a woman who moves to the title hamlet to live with her two spinster friends.
- In a mountain hamlet nestled into the French Alps at Queyras, we drank café-au-lait* from gigantic ceramic bowls, slathered homemade confiture de mûres* over fat slices of buttered bread and talked about how well we slept the night before.
- I saw Hamlet several imes in theaters, real heaters, not movies one, as well as an old black and white movie version of it and i can tell you that Mel Gbsons incarnation of hamlet is the very best ever made .. which nobody believed he could at first .. being an aussie and all that .. lol surprise!