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.
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(British) A village that does not have its own church.
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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(specifically, Canada) An unincorporated community of whatever size, lacking its own municipal government, but with defined boundaries.
No, no. It's a cute little town. Actually, I think they call it a "hamlet." That's how cute it is.
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