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/ˈhæm.lɪt/ · noun
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.
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.: […]
[…] 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.
Use hamlet 2 when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hamlet 2 means A small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village..
Common synonyms include thorp, village, crossroads.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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