hamlet

noun/ˈhæmlɪt/

Frequency rank: #6,427 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a very small village or settlement, smaller than a village.

Illustration for the English word “hamlet”

Example sentence

The old road winds through a tiny hamlet nestled between two forested hills.

Synonyms & related words

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