A small village.
[Middle English hamelet, from Old French, diminutive of hamel, of Germanic origin.]
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ham·let (hăm'lĭt) ![]() |
A small village.
[Middle English hamelet, from Old French, diminutive of hamel, of Germanic origin.]
| Geography Dictionary: hamlet |
A small settlement without services or shops, and usually without a church.
| Archaeology Dictionary: hamlet |
A cluster of houses and other buildings smaller than a village.
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The picturesque hamlet was nestled in the narrow valley.
| Wikipedia: Hamlet (place) |
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. The name comes from Anglo-Norman hamelet(t)e; Old French hamelet, the diminutive of OF hamel, itself derived of OF ham from Germanic heim or Anglo-Saxon hām > home[1].
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In the United Kingdom, the word 'hamlet' has no defined legal meaning, although hamlets are recognised as part of land use planning policies and administration. A hamlet is traditionally defined ecclesiastically as a village or settlement that usually does not have its own church, belonging to a parish of another village or town. In modern usage it generally refers to a secondary settlement in a civil parish, after the main settlement (if any). Hamlets may have been formed around a single source of economic activity such as a farm, mill, mine or harbour that employed its working population. Some hamlets, particularly those that have a medieval church, may be the result of the depopulation of a village.
The term hamlet was used in some parts of the country[clarification needed] for an areal subdivision of a parish (which might or might not contain a settlement). Elsewhere, these subdivisions were called "townships" or "tithings".[2][3]
In New York, hamlets are unincorporated settlements within towns. Hamlets are usually not legal entities and have no local government or official boundaries. Their proximate location will often be noted on road signs, however.
A hamlet usually depends upon the town that contains it for municipal services and government. A hamlet could be described as the rural or suburban equivalent of a neighborhood in a city or village. The area of a hamlet may not be exactly defined and may simply be contained within the ZIP code of its post office, or may be defined by its school or fire district. Some hamlets proximate to urban areas are sometimes continuous with their cities and appear to be neighborhoods, but they still are under the jurisdiction of the town. Some hamlets -- for example, Hauppauge, with a population of over 20,000 -- are far more populous than some incorporated cities in the state.
In Oregon, specifically in Clackamas County, a hamlet is a form of local government for small communities, which allows the citizens therein to organize and co-ordinate community activities. Hamlets do not provide services such as utilities or fire protection, and do not have the authority to levy taxes or fees. The first hamlet to be created in Oregon was the Hamlet of Beavercreek which was organized as a hamlet in 2006.
In numerous provinces in Canada, there are officially designated municipalities generally smaller than villages, classified as hamlets. Hamlets are usually small communities situated in remote areas, like Cape Dorset in Nunavut, and Enterprise and Tulita in the Northwest Territories. However, all provinces contain a number of hamlets.
However, in Alberta, they are unincorporated settlements, as in New York. Sherwood Park, Alberta, which has a population of more than 50,000—well above that needed for city status—has nonetheless retained hamlet status.[4] Fort McMurray, Alberta used to be a city, but has now been amalgamated into the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, thus making it a hamlet. Hamlets are always unincorporated, except in Canada's northern territories, where they are incorporated municipalities.
In Pakistani a rural area equivalent to a hamlet is called Dhok ڈھوک. In Pakistani, usually in Punjab, villages it is a small residential area separated from other such areas by lands and fields.
In some rural parts of India these are called "faliya", especially in areas of Jhabua.[citation needed] and "Dhani" in North-West part of India.
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| Translations: Hamlet |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - lille landsby
Nederlands (Dutch)
kerkloos gehucht, gat, brasem
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - χωριουδάκι, οικισμός
Português (Portuguese)
n. - aldeia (f), vila (f)
Русский (Russian)
селение, деревушка, Гамлет
Español (Spanish)
n. - aldehuela, caserío
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - liten by (utan kyrka)
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
小村, 部落
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 小村, 部落
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 작은 마을, 촌락, 다른 교구에 속하는 작은 마을
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) قريه صغيرة
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - כפר קטן, כפרון
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