hamlet
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- Stati Uniti//ˈhæm.lət//
- Canada//ˈhæm.lɪt//
A small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village.
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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.
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A village that does not have its own church.
One hundred thirtie two thousand of Parish Churches, Hamlets, and Villages of all sorts.
Hunsley is a hamlet in the parish of Rowley.
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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)
Sherwood Park is a hamlet with a population of 35 500 while the rural area has a population exceeding 20 000 people.
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.
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Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.
Larval hamlets are similar to larval Serranus and spend several weeks in the plankton feeding on a variety of tiny crustaceans and invertebrates before metamorphosing and settling on to the reef.
Shy Hamlet […] The back of this hamlet is dark in some specimens but a much bluer shade in others. […] Amazingly, each fish is a hermaphrodite, possessing both male and female sex organs, so any two Shy Hamlets should be able to mate successfully.
Lastly, we get to the things that you should be able to keep with tridacnines without worrying. […] There should be no problems with any of the grammas, groupers, hamlets, hawkfishes, or jawfishes, either.
Etimologia
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz Frankish *haimbor. Old French ham Old French hamel Old French hameletbor. Middle English hamlet English hamlet From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel, in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *haim, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (whence English home). Equivalent to Middle English ham (“home, village”) + -let (“small”).
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- hamlets
hamlet · A small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village.
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