Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Hamlet"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hamlet \Ham"let\, n. [OWE. hamelet, OF. hamelet, dim. of hamel,
F. hameau, LL. hamellum, a dim. of German origin; cf. G. heim
home. [root]220. See {Home}.]
A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
The country wasted, and the hamlets burned. --Dryden.
Syn: Village; neighborhood. See {Village}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hamlet
n 1: a community of people smaller than a village [syn: {crossroads}]
2: the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to
avenge the murder of his father [syn: {Hamlet}]
3: a settlement smaller than a town [syn: {village}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.