hamlet
Meanings
noun
- A small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village.
- A village that does not have its own church.
- An unincorporated community of whatever size, lacking its own municipal government, but with defined boundaries.
- Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.
name
- A William Shakespeare play about the Danish royal family.
- The eponymous main character of William Shakespeare's play, whose father's ghost, murdered by Hamlet's uncle, exhorts him to seek revenge.
- A male given name.
- A surname.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Marin County, California.
- An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Illinois.
- A town in Starke County, Indiana, named after John Hamlet.
- A village in Hayes County, Nebraska, so-named as it was regarded as a hamlet.
- A hamlet in Chautauqua County, New York.
- A city in Richmond County, North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon, regarded as a hamlet.
noun
- A protein complex of alpha-lactalbumin and oleic acid that induces apoptosis in tumor cells, but not in healthy cells.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz Frankish *haimbor. Old French ham Old French hamel Old French hameletbor. Middle English hamlet English hamlet From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel, in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *haim, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (whence English home). Equivalent to Middle English ham (“home, village”) + -let (“small”).
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