hamlet

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n. 小村, 部落

发音

UK /ˈhæm.lɪt/
其它
US /ˈhæm.lət/

词形变化

hamlets 复数 hamlets

别名

hmlt.

教材释义与例句

名词

小村庄

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small settlement or a group of houses.

  2. 2.

    A village that does not have its own church.

    村庄

    小村

    部落无教会的小村庄

  3. 3.

    Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

village crossroads

上位词 2

community settlement

下位词 4

pueblo campong kampong kraal

相关短语

Wenhaston with Mells Hamlet Stockley Hamlet Bures Hamlet Blaise Hamlet Broughton Hamlet

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”).

来源：wiktionary