Usually means: Small settlements, smaller than villages.
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  1. hamlets: Merriam-Webster
  2. hamlets: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Hamlets, hamlets: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hamlet's, Hamlets, Hamlets, hamlet's, hamlets: Wordnik
  5. hamlets: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hamlets: Wiktionary
  7. hamlets: Dictionary.com
  8. hamlets: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Hamlets (software), Hamlets: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Hamlets: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Hamlets: Legal dictionary

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  1. Hamlets: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (HAMLET)

noun:  A small village or a group of houses.
noun:  (British) A village that does not have its own church.
noun:  Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.
noun:  A William Shakespeare play about the Danish royal family.
noun:  The eponymous main character of William Shakespeare's play, whose father's ghost, murdered by Hamlet's uncle, exhorts him to seek revenge.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Marin County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Illinois.
noun:  A town in Starke County, Indiana, named after John Hamlet.
noun:  A village in Hayes County, Nebraska, so-named as it was regarded as a hamlet.
noun:  A hamlet in Chautauqua County, New York.
noun:  A city in Richmond County, North Carolina.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon, regarded as a hamlet.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, so-named for its small size.
noun:  A locality in Alberta, Canada, named after William Hamlet.
noun:  A settlement in Gittisham parish, East Devon district, Devon, England, just outside Honiton (OS grid ref SY1499).
noun:  A hamlet in Yetminster parish and Chetnole parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST5908).
noun:  (biochemistry) A protein complex of alpha-lactalbumin and oleic acid that induces apoptosis in tumor cells, but not in healthy cells.
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