hamlet
part of speech
noun (a hamlet, hamlets); proper noun (Hamlet)
meaning for a pupil
1) A very small village, often with no church. tree →
2) (proper noun) Hamlet, a famous play by Shakespeare, and its main character, a prince of Denmark. tree →
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 →
- A hamlet is smaller than a village. tree →
- Sort the settlements: hamlet, village, town, city. tree →
- The hamlet sits at the bottom of the valley. tree →
- Shakespeare wrote the play Hamlet. tree →
- Only a few families live in the hamlet. tree →
- First you must call together your attendants, and order them to remain in a little hamlet close by until you want them. tree →
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.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hamlet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.