hamlet

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈhæm.lɪt/    美 /ˈhæm.lət/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A village that does not have its own church. UK
    — One hundred thirtie two thousand of Parish Churches, Hamlets, and Villages of all sorts.
  3. An unincorporated community of whatever size, lacking its own municipal government, but with defined boundaries. Canada,specifically
    — […] Wessex county (a pseudonym) comprising rural area (pop. 8,434); four incorporated towns plus the section of land containing the largest hamlet in the county (pop. 2,489)
  4. Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.
    — Larval hamlets are similar to larval Serranus and spend several weeks in the plankton feeding on a variety of tiny crustaceans and invertebrates before metamorphosing and settling on to the reef.

词形变化

hamlets plural

词汇关系

上位词
settlement
衍生词
Blaise Hamlet Broughton Hamlet Bures Hamlet Clint cum Hamlets Crediton Hamlets Dawley Hamlets hamleted hamleteer hamletted Holsworthy Hamlets Okehampton Hamlets Stockley Hamlet Tower Hamlets

词源

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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