hamlet

About 5.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village or town with usually under two hundred people.
2. noun A village that does not have its own church.
3. noun An unincorporated community of whatever size, lacking its own municipal government, but with defined boundaries.
4. noun Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.

Similar words

village crossroads dorp dane ay community settlement lower ophelia locality

Often followed by

of and is in was to or has as

Word family

Hamlet hamlets