hamlet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 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”).
Base: ham
Affixes: -let
Inflected forms:
form: hamlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A village that does not have its own church.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: One hundred thirtie two thousand of Parish Churches, Hamlets, and Villages of all sorts.
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.: […]
Hunsley is a hamlet in the parish of Rowley.
gloss: An unincorporated community of whatever size, lacking its own municipal government, but with defined boundaries.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
specifically
examples: […] 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.
gloss: Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Derived words: Blaise Hamlet
Broughton Hamlet
Bures Hamlet
Clint cum Hamlets
Crediton Hamlets
Dawley Hamlets
hamleted
hamleteer
hamletted
Holsworthy Hamlets
Okehampton Hamlets
Stockley Hamlet
Tower Hamlets
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word: 村莊 /村庄
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word: 小村
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word: сеоце
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