hamlet
/ˈhæmlət/noun
उच्चारण हैम्लट
छोटा गाँव, पुरवा, खेड़ा
Core wordPYP · asked 2 times
Asked in previous papers
as one-word substitution
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a very small village
छोटा गाँव, पुरवा, खेड़ा
- a remote hamlet in the hills
- The bus stopped at a quiet hamlet of five houses beside the river.
- A tiny hamlet lies at the end of the mountain road.
+ 2 more examples
- The doctor visited every hamlet in the valley.
- The hamlet has no school, so children walk to the next village.
Synonyms village settlement small community dhani
§Structures (grammar patterns) 5
a hamlet (countable noun)
Hamlet is a countable noun for a very small village, so it takes a or the in the singular.
'Hamlet' बहुत छोटे गाँव के लिए गिनने योग्य noun है, इसलिए singular में इसके साथ a या the आता है।
- The river flows past a hamlet of ten houses.
- The school is in a hamlet two miles from the main road.
a hamlet of + number of houses
Use hamlet of to give the size of the settlement.
बस्ती का आकार बताने के लिए 'hamlet of' का प्रयोग होता है।
- It is a hamlet of barely twenty families.
hamlet in + place / hamlet near + place
Use in for the region and near for the closest bigger place.
क्षेत्र बताने के लिए 'in' और निकटतम बड़ी जगह बताने के लिए 'near' आता है।
- Radhika grew up in a hamlet near Almora.
- He was born in a mountain hamlet in Uttarakhand.
hamlet vs village vs town
A hamlet is smaller than a village and usually has no shop, school or church of its own.
Hamlet गाँव से छोटा होता है और प्रायः उसकी अपनी दुकान, स्कूल या पूजास्थल नहीं होता।
- The hamlet has no shop, so people walk to the village market.
Hamlet (capitalised)
With a capital H, Hamlet is the prince in Shakespeare's play; it is a proper noun and takes no article.
बड़े H के साथ 'Hamlet' शेक्सपियर के नाटक का राजकुमार है; यह proper noun है और इसके साथ article नहीं आता।
- We studied Hamlet in the final year of college.
+Collocations 5
adjective + hamlet
remotetinysleepymountaintribal
- They trekked to a remote hamlet high in the hills.
verb + hamlet
reachpass throughlive invisitleave
- The bus passes through three hamlets before the town.
hamlet + noun
roadwellschoolelder
- The hamlet well dried up in May.
preposition + hamlet
in a hamletfrom a hamletnear a hamletoutside a hamlet
- The family moved from a hamlet to the city for work.
hamlet + of
a dozen housesmud hutsfishermentea workers
- We stayed in a hamlet of tea workers in Assam.
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- Electricity reached the hamlet only last year.
बिजली उस पुरवे में पिछले वर्ष ही पहुँची।
- The nearest hospital is a two-hour walk from the hamlet.
निकटतम अस्पताल उस बस्ती से दो घंटे की पैदल दूरी पर है।
- Every morning, the children of the hamlet walk to school across the fields.
हर सुबह पुरवे के बच्चे खेतों के पार पैदल स्कूल जाते हैं।
- The hamlet was cut off for days by the flood.
बाढ़ के कारण वह छोटा गाँव कई दिनों तक कटा रहा।
- Her grandmother still lives in the hamlet where she was born.
उसकी दादी आज भी उसी छोटे गाँव में रहती हैं जहाँ उनका जन्म हुआ था।
!Common mistakes 4
✗ I live in a hamlet which have only ten houses.
✓ I live in a hamlet which has only ten houses.
The verb must agree with the singular relative pronoun which (referring to hamlet).
Relative pronoun 'which' singular संज्ञा 'hamlet' के लिए है, इसलिए verb 'has' आएगा।
✗ The hamlet were destroyed in the earthquake.
✓ The hamlet was destroyed in the earthquake.
Hamlet is singular and needs a singular verb.
'Hamlet' singular है, इसलिए इसके साथ singular verb 'was' आता है।
✗ He was born in a hamlet name Rampur.
✓ He was born in a hamlet named Rampur.
Use the past participle named (or called) to give a name after a noun.
संज्ञा के बाद नाम बताने के लिए past participle 'named' या 'called' आता है।
✗ My grandparents live in a small hamlet village.
✓ My grandparents live in a small hamlet.
Hamlet already means a very small village, so village is repeated and unnecessary.
'Hamlet' का अर्थ ही बहुत छोटा गाँव है, इसलिए 'village' जोड़ना अनावश्यक दोहराव है।
≠Thesaurus: which synonym when
All three are rural settlements, ordered here by size from smallest to largest.
तीनों ग्रामीण बस्तियाँ हैं, जो यहाँ छोटे से बड़े क्रम में दी गई हैं।
A very small group of houses, often without shops or services.
घरों का बहुत छोटा समूह, प्रायः बिना दुकान या सेवाओं के।
- The hamlet has only eight huts.
A small settlement with some shared facilities such as a school or market.
कुछ साझा सुविधाओं वाली छोटी बस्ती, जैसे स्कूल या बाज़ार।
- The village has a primary school and a post office.
A larger place with shops, offices and many services.
दुकानों, दफ़्तरों और अनेक सेवाओं वाला बड़ा स्थान।
- She travels to the town by bus to study.
≈Synonyms and antonyms
Synonyms
village settlement small community dhani
AaSpelling
ham·let
✓In the exam
One-word substitution
One-word substitution, asked very often: a very small village is a hamlet; a large town a city; a very large city a metropolis; a city with many suburbs a conurbation; an area just outside a city a suburb.
यह बहुत पूछा जाता है: बहुत छोटा गाँव hamlet; बड़ा कस्बा city; बहुत बड़ा शहर metropolis; कई उपनगरों वाला शहर conurbation; शहर के ठीक बाहर का क्षेत्र suburb।
General knowledge
Literature: Hamlet is also Shakespeare's famous tragedy about the Prince of Denmark.
साहित्य में Hamlet डेनमार्क के राजकुमार पर Shakespeare की प्रसिद्ध त्रासदी भी है।