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A hamlet is a very small village — a handful of houses, sometimes without a shop, a school, or even a church. It is smaller than what English speakers usually call a village, and much smaller than a town.
A hamlethamlet is a very small village是非常小的村落——a handful of houses只有幾間房子，sometimes without a shop, a school, or even a church有時候連商店、學校，甚至教堂都沒有。It is smaller than what English speakers usually call a village它比英文使用者一般說的 village（村莊）還要小，and much smaller than a town比 town（小鎮）更是小很多。
The word is a little old-fashioned and a little ; map-makers, historians, and people describing the countryside still use it, but a child giving directions would more often just say ‘a tiny village’ or ‘a few houses’. There is no hard line on the map that turns a village into a hamlet; it is a feel-word for ‘almost too small to count’.
The word is a little old-fashioned and a little bookish這個字有點老派、有點書面語；map-makers, historians, and people describing the countryside still use it製圖師、歷史學家，還有描寫鄉間的人還是會用，but a child giving directions would more often just say 'a tiny village' or 'a few houses'但小孩子指路的時候比較常就直接說「a tiny village」（一個很小的村莊）或「a few houses」（幾間房子）。There is no hard line on the map that turns a village into a hamlet地圖上並沒有一條明確的界線把 village 變成 hamlet；it is a feel-word for 'almost too small to count'這是一個憑感覺的詞，用來表示「幾乎小到不能算數」。
Though actually, it is not the name of Shakespeare’s prince. That Hamlet is a person’s name with a different history. This hamlet is a place.
Though actually不過其實，it is not the name of Shakespeare's prince它跟莎士比亞筆下那位王子的名字不是同一回事。That Hamlet is a person's name with a different history那個 Hamlet 是人名，有不同的來歷。This hamlet is a place這裡講的 hamlet 是一個地方。
組成From Old French hamelet, a diminutive (a ‘little’ form) of hamel, itself a diminutive of ham ‘home, village’, from a Germanic word that also gives English home. In English it sits as ham + -let (‘small’).
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HAMLETnoun
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biochemistrybiologychemistryA protein complex of alpha-lactalbumin and oleic acid that induces apoptosis in tumor cells, but not in healthy cells.
Hamletname/ˈhæm.lɪt/
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A William Shakespeare play about the Danish royal family.
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The eponymous main character of William Shakespeare's play, whose father's ghost, murdered by Hamlet's uncle, exhorts him to seek revenge.
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A male given name.
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A surname.
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A locality in Alberta, Canada, named after William Hamlet.
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A settlement in Gittisham parish, East Devon district, Devon, England, just outside Honiton (OS grid ref SY1499).
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A hamlet in Yetminster parish and Chetnole parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST5908).
hamletnoun/ˈhæm.lɪt/
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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.
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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.
- 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.: […]
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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.
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。