Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Dictionary
    ham·let
    /ˈhamlət/

    noun

    • 1. a small settlement, generally one smaller than a village: "the house is in a quiet hamlet overlooking open countryside"

    More definitions, origin and scrabble points

  2. HAMLET | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary. Meaning of hamlet in English. hamlet. noun [ C ] uk / ˈhæm.lət / us / ˈhæm.lət / Add to word list. a small village, usually without a church. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general) aerotropolis. anti-city. anti-urban. boom town. Brummie.

  3. 1 of 2. noun (1) ham· let ˈham-lət. Synonyms of hamlet. : a small village. Hamlet. 2 of 2. noun (2) Ham· let ˈham-lət. : a legendary Danish prince and hero of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Synonyms. Noun (1) bourg. townlet. village. whistle-stop. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of hamlet in a Sentence.

  4. 2 meanings: 1. a small village or group of houses 2. (in Britain) a village without its own church.... Click for more definitions.

  5. Jun 18, 2024 · Hamlet adopts a guise of melancholic and mad behaviour as a way of deceiving Claudius and others at court—a guise made all the easier by the fact that Hamlet is genuinely melancholic. Understand the use of soliloquy in William Shakespeare's “Hamlet”

  6. HAMLET | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Meaning of hamlet in English. hamlet. noun [ C ] us / ˈhæm.lət / uk / ˈhæm.lət / Add to word list. a small village, usually without a church. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general) aerotropolis. anti-city. anti-urban. boom town.

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › HamletHamlet - Wikipedia

    The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to Hamlet ( / ˈhæmlɪt / ), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play.

  8. That small settlement you pass through along a country road is not just a cluster of houses. It’s a hamlet. You may be familiar with Shakespeare’s famous play describing the plight of the doomed prince Hamlet.

  9. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to just Hamlet, was written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599-1602. It is arguably one of his most famous tragedies. The lines from Hamlet's monologue in act three that begin "To be, or not to be..."

  10. Jul 25, 2020 · At nearly 4,000 lines, almost twice the length of Macbeth, Hamlet is Shakespeare’s longest and, arguably, his most ambitious play with an enormous range of characters—from royals to gravediggers—and incidents, including court, bedroom, and graveyard scenes and a play within a play.

  11. noun. (italics) a tragedy (first printed 1603) by Shakespeare. the hero of this play, a young prince who avenges the murder of his father. hamlet. / ˈhæmlɪt / noun. a small village or group of houses. (in Britain) a village without its own church.