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# hamlet

«hamlet» in Mova's school dictionary: **A very small village, often with no church** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hamlet, hamlets); proper noun (Hamlet)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A very small village, often with no church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hamlet/#m1)

2) (proper noun) Hamlet, a famous play by Shakespeare, and its main character, a prince of Denmark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hamlet/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons on settlements: hamlet → village → town → city, from smallest to largest. In English literature, «Hamlet» is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays.

### examples

- We drove through a tiny hamlet with just five houses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hamlet/#x1)
- A hamlet is smaller than a village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hamlet/#x2)
- Sort the settlements: hamlet, village, town, city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hamlet/#x3)
- The hamlet sits at the bottom of the valley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hamlet/#x4)
- Shakespeare wrote the play Hamlet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hamlet/#x5)
- Only a few families live in the hamlet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hamlet/#x6)
- First you must call together your attendants, and order them to remain in a little hamlet close by until you want them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hamlet/#x7)

### note

Countable. Settlement order by size: hamlet < village < town < city. With a capital letter it is the play.

### In the corpora

- ["Shuffled off this mortal coil" means died; it comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet and is used jokingly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hamlet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hamlet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.