hamletn.¹

/ˈhamlɪt/

Forms: Also Middle English hamelat, hamillet, Middle English–1500s hamelett(e, Middle English–1600s hamelet, 1500s hamlette, 1600s hamblet.

Etymology: < Old French hamelet, in Anglo-Norman also hamelete , hamlette , (medieval Latin hameletum , -letta ), secondary diminutive of hamel : see hamel n.¹

a. A group of houses or small village in the country; esp. a village without a church, included in the parish belonging to another village or a town. (In some of the United States, the official designation of an incorporated place smaller than a village.)

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > small village or hamlet

towneOE

hamletc1330

hamelc1514

endware1577

endship1590

quillet1597

flect1637

peasantship1762

villaget1781

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 310 þe fote men ilk a flok, A pouere hamlete toke, þe castelle Karelauerok.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 340 He died at a hamelette, men calle it Burgh bisandes.

1483 Cath. Angl. 172/2 A Hamelett, villula.

1546 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 222 W^t vij lyttle hamlettes therto belonging.

1604 View of Fraunce C b One hundred thirtie two thousand of Parish Churches, Hamlets, and Villages of all sorts.

1675 J. Ogilby Britannia Introd. 3 The Hamlets of the Tower made up 2 Regiments.

1751 T. Gray Elegy iv. 6 The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

1820 W. Scott Monastery I. i. 83 A small village or hamlet, where..some thirty or forty families dwelt together.

1883 A. Shaw in J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. (1888) II. xlviii. 247 Ohio..divides her municipal corporations into (a) cities..(b) villages..and (c) hamlets, incorporated places with less than 200 inhabitants.

attributive.1641 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 18 Aug. 21 385 For y^e Hamlett men, It was haruest tyme.1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 123 The thatcher, the most important perhaps of the hamlet craftsmen.

b. transferred. The people of a hamlet. (poetic.)

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > inhabitant of village > [noun] > collectively

townshipeOE

villagea1529

hamlet1744

villageship1762

villagefula1894

1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 210 Hamlets sleeping in the Dead of Night.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam x. 14 Where the kneeling hamlet drains The chalice of the grapes of God.

Derivatives

ˈhamleted adj. located in a hamlet.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [adjective] > hamlet

hamleted1661

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 281 Hamletted in some untravail'd village of the duller Country.

hamleˈteer n. an inhabitant of a hamlet.

ΚΠ

1825 T. K. Cromwell Hist. Colchester 102 Overcoming a feeble opposition from the Tower Hambleteers.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxviii. 126 Going back to give the rudiments of education to remote hamleteers.

ˈhamletize v. U.S. to incorporate as a hamlet.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > make village [verb (transitive)] > incorporate as hamlet

hamletize1893

1893 Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio) 9 Feb. The controversy concerning the hamletizing of Bullitt Park.

hamletiˈzation n.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > small village or hamlet > incorporation as hamlet

hamletization1893

1893 Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio) 9 Feb. Annexation, not hamletization, should occur.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

Hamletn.²

/ˈhamlɪt/

Etymology: < the name of Hamlet, prince of Denmark, who is the hero of Shakespeare's play of this name.

In allusive phrase Hamlet without the Prince (of Denmark): a performance without the chief actor or a proceeding without the central figure.

ΚΠ

1775 Morning Post 21 Sept. Lee Lewes diverts them with the manner of their performing Hamlet in a company that he belonged to, when the hero who was to play the principal character had absconded with an inn-keeper's daughter; and that when he came forward to give out the play, he added, ‘the part of Hamlet to be left out, for that night.’]

1818 Ld. Byron Let. 26 Aug. (1976) VI. 63 My autobiographical Essay would resemble the tragedy of Hamlet.., recited ‘with the part of Hamlet left out by particular desire’.

1820 Countess Granville Let. 22 Aug. (1894) I. 161 I am not used to be news~monger and perhaps I leave out Hamlet.

1825 W. Scott Talisman (1883) 5 The title of a ‘Tale of the Crusaders’ would resemble the playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel I. vii. 109 ‘What have you been doing at home, Cousin Rady?’ ‘Playing Hamlet, in the absence of the Prince of Denmark.’

1902 Daily Chron. 22 Apr. 3/1 Of what avail is it to promise ‘entirely new scenery’ for ‘Die Meistersinger’, if the part of Hans Sachs is to be practically eliminated from the performance? And yet this ‘Hamlet-without-the-Prince’ method is consistently pursued season after season at Covent Garden.

1910 Times (Weekly ed.) 17 June 452 The army without Kitchener is like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark.

1918 L. Strachey Eminent Victorians 86 The Catholic Church without the absolute dominion of the Pope might resemble the play of Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark.

1967 ‘J. Prescot’ Case Counterfeit viii. 96 Without Drax one can't do a thing. Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark, I guess.

1972 Publishers Weekly 3 Apr. 22/3 The article..in the March 6th PW was an attempt to stage Hamlet without the Dane.

Derivatives

ˈHamletish adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [adjective]

twiredec888

orrathc1175

twofoldc1175

twifoldc1200

waveringc1315

uncertain1382

suspensec1440

mammeringa1450

flowing?1504

floghtering1521

vacillant1521

in a mammering1532

double-minded1552

unstaid1561

unresolute1570

unresolved?1571

staggeringa1577

frittle1579

irresolute1579

cheverel1583

off and on1583

halting1585

unsettleda1593

unresolving1599

demurring1607

waving1611

suspensive1614

hoveringa1616

startling1619

irresolved1621

hesitating1622

indetermined1628

variousa1643

branling1645

hesitant1647

non-sincere1656

hesitatious1657

humdrum1660

shuttlecock1660

yea-and-nay1672

swaying1688

interpendent1708

undetermined1718

Squadronec1720

hesitatorya1734

volanta1734

shilly-shally1734

dilly-dally1749

niffy-naffy1765

wiggle-waggle1778

undecided1779

undecisive1780

indecisive1787

conflicted1789

hesitative1795

undeciding1802

vacillating1814

yea-nay1827

demurrant1836

willy-nilly1839

shilly-shallying1842

oscillative1852

Hamletish1854

vacillatory1854

dilly-dallying1879

thistledown1897

weak-principled1913

not-quite1920

off-again on-again1923

dithery1931

havering1975

1854 ‘G. Greenwood’ Haps & Mishaps iii. 53 Herr Devrient is a handsome, Hamlet-ish man, with a melancholy refinement of voice.

1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Sept. 711/2 Adams's madness is, indeed, a trifle Hamletish.

1952 A. R. D. Fairburn Strange Rendezvous 25 He has played the gravedigger to many a Hamletish posture of my soul.

ˈHamletism n. an attitude resembling that of Hamlet.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [noun]

yea-and-nayc1384

vacillationc1400

titteringa1413

stackeringc1440

wondingc1440

fluctuationc1450

waver1519

mammering1532

uncertainty1548

wavering1548

to and fro1553

suspense1560

staggering1565

suspension1568

mammery1578

demur1581

branle1591

dilly-dally1592

hesitance1601

irresolution1601

uncertainness1601

undecision1611

waveringness1614

hesitancy1617

unsettledness1619

hesitation1622

unresolvednessa1626

doubleness of minda1628

wavinga1628

swagging1636

poise1637

mambling1640

stickagea1647

vacillancy1668

whifflinga1677

hovering1679

unresolve1679

irresoluteness1686

shilly-shally1755

indecisiona1763

undecisiveness1779

indecisiveness1793

oscillation1798

flexility1815

shilly-shallying1842

swaying1850

Hamletism1852

teeter1855

havering1866

off and on1875

dilly-dallying1879

double-mindedness1881

hesitatingness1890

dither1958

1852 H. Melville Pierre vii. vi. 191 In this plaintive fable we find embodied the Hamletism of the antique world.

1905 Daily Chron. 11 Apr. 4/7 Let us forget Hamletism and all its ills.

1945 W. Fowlie in Mod. Reading XII. 210 He is the one contemporary writer who has driven out from his nature all traces of hamletism, and yet he writes constantly about Hamlet.

ˈHamletize v. rare to soliloquize or meditate after the manner of Hamlet.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > contemplation of self > reflect on oneself [verb]

bethinkc1000

rememberc1405

to descend into (also within) oneself1539

finger1546

reflect1595

recollect1640

introvert1671

Hamletize1844

introspect1884

the mind > language > speech > monologue > talk in monologue [verb (intransitive)]

soliloquize1759

to think aloud (also out loud)1789

monologue1825

Hamletize1844

monologuize1870

monologize1890

1844 G. C. Hebbe & J. MacKay tr. ‘C. Sealsfield’ Life in New World 267 Halloo! Mr. Howard! Hamletizing?

1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xiv. 205 One shouldn't talk when one is tired and wretched.—One Hamletises, and it seems a lie.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Stud. Classic Amer. Lit. ix. 180 So Dana sits and Hamletizes by the Pacific—chief actor in the play of his own existence.

Draft additions 1993

2. Used allusively, esp. to denote a troubled, indecisive, or capricious person. Also transferred and attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > capricious persons or animals > capricious or whimsical person

butterflya1500

wild-brain1580

wild-head1583

humorista1586

wild goose1597

barmy-froth1598

whirligig1602

maggot-monger1607

maggot-patea1640

kickshaw1644

whimsy-pate1654

maggot1681

volatilityship1771

whimship1793

vagarist1888

Jack-o'-wisp1896

Hamlet1903

temperamentalist1924

1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman Pref. p. xxix Dickens, without the excuse of having to manufacture motives for Hamlets and Macbeths, superfluously punts his crew down the stream of his monthly parts.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 180 Khaki Hamlets don't hesitate to shoot. The bloodboltered shambles in act five is a forecast of the concentration camp.

1941 J. Maynard Russia in Flux v. 117 One type [of social missionary] is of the Don Quixote type... Another is of the Hamlet type, a bastard aristocrat, introspective and poetical, is merely ineffectual, and dies by suicide.

1952 E. O'Neill Moon for Misbegotten iv. 170 Suddenly, for no reason, all the fun went out of it, and I was more melancholy than ten Hamlets.

1984 N.Y. Times 26 Oct. a12/5 We cannot allow ourselves to become the Hamlet of nations, worrying endlessly over whether and how to respond.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	hamlet
释义	hamletn.¹ /ˈhamlɪt/ Forms: Also Middle English hamelat, hamillet, Middle English–1500s hamelett(e, Middle English–1600s hamelet, 1500s hamlette, 1600s hamblet. Etymology: < Old French hamelet, in Anglo-Norman also hamelete , hamlette , (medieval Latin hameletum , -letta ), secondary diminutive of hamel : see hamel n.¹ a. A group of houses or small village in the country; esp. a village without a church, included in the parish belonging to another village or a town. (In some of the United States, the official designation of an incorporated place smaller than a village.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > small village or hamlet towneOE hamletc1330 hamelc1514 endware1577 endship1590 quillet1597 flect1637 peasantship1762 villaget1781 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 310 þe fote men ilk a flok, A pouere hamlete toke, þe castelle Karelauerok. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 340 He died at a hamelette, men calle it Burgh bisandes. 1483 Cath. Angl. 172/2 A Hamelett, villula. 1546 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 222 W^t vij lyttle hamlettes therto belonging. 1604 View of Fraunce C b One hundred thirtie two thousand of Parish Churches, Hamlets, and Villages of all sorts. 1675 J. Ogilby Britannia Introd. 3 The Hamlets of the Tower made up 2 Regiments. 1751 T. Gray Elegy iv. 6 The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. i. 83 A small village or hamlet, where..some thirty or forty families dwelt together. 1883 A. Shaw in J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. (1888) II. xlviii. 247 Ohio..divides her municipal corporations into (a) cities..(b) villages..and (c) hamlets, incorporated places with less than 200 inhabitants. attributive.1641 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 18 Aug. 21 385 For y^e Hamlett men, It was haruest tyme.1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 123 The thatcher, the most important perhaps of the hamlet craftsmen. b. transferred. The people of a hamlet. (poetic.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > inhabitant of village > [noun] > collectively townshipeOE villagea1529 hamlet1744 villageship1762 villagefula1894 1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 210 Hamlets sleeping in the Dead of Night. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam x. 14 Where the kneeling hamlet drains The chalice of the grapes of God. View more context for this quotation Derivatives ˈhamleted adj. located in a hamlet. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [adjective] > hamlet hamleted1661 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 281 Hamletted in some untravail'd village of the duller Country. hamleˈteer n. an inhabitant of a hamlet. ΚΠ 1825 T. K. Cromwell Hist. Colchester 102 Overcoming a feeble opposition from the Tower Hambleteers. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxviii. 126 Going back to give the rudiments of education to remote hamleteers. ˈhamletize v. U.S. to incorporate as a hamlet. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > make village [verb (transitive)] > incorporate as hamlet hamletize1893 1893 Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio) 9 Feb. The controversy concerning the hamletizing of Bullitt Park. hamletiˈzation n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > small village or hamlet > incorporation as hamlet hamletization1893 1893 Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio) 9 Feb. Annexation, not hamletization, should occur. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021). Hamletn.² /ˈhamlɪt/ Etymology: < the name of Hamlet, prince of Denmark, who is the hero of Shakespeare's play of this name. In allusive phrase Hamlet without the Prince (of Denmark): a performance without the chief actor or a proceeding without the central figure. ΚΠ 1775 Morning Post 21 Sept. Lee Lewes diverts them with the manner of their performing Hamlet in a company that he belonged to, when the hero who was to play the principal character had absconded with an inn-keeper's daughter; and that when he came forward to give out the play, he added, ‘the part of Hamlet to be left out, for that night.’] 1818 Ld. Byron Let. 26 Aug. (1976) VI. 63 My autobiographical Essay would resemble the tragedy of Hamlet.., recited ‘with the part of Hamlet left out by particular desire’. 1820 Countess Granville Let. 22 Aug. (1894) I. 161 I am not used to be news~monger and perhaps I leave out Hamlet. 1825 W. Scott Talisman (1883) 5 The title of a ‘Tale of the Crusaders’ would resemble the playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. 1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel I. vii. 109 ‘What have you been doing at home, Cousin Rady?’ ‘Playing Hamlet, in the absence of the Prince of Denmark.’ 1902 Daily Chron. 22 Apr. 3/1 Of what avail is it to promise ‘entirely new scenery’ for ‘Die Meistersinger’, if the part of Hans Sachs is to be practically eliminated from the performance? And yet this ‘Hamlet-without-the-Prince’ method is consistently pursued season after season at Covent Garden. 1910 Times (Weekly ed.) 17 June 452 The army without Kitchener is like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. 1918 L. Strachey Eminent Victorians 86 The Catholic Church without the absolute dominion of the Pope might resemble the play of Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. 1967 ‘J. Prescot’ Case Counterfeit viii. 96 Without Drax one can't do a thing. Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark, I guess. 1972 Publishers Weekly 3 Apr. 22/3 The article..in the March 6th PW was an attempt to stage Hamlet without the Dane. Derivatives ˈHamletish adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [adjective] twiredec888 orrathc1175 twofoldc1175 twifoldc1200 waveringc1315 uncertain1382 suspensec1440 mammeringa1450 flowing?1504 floghtering1521 vacillant1521 in a mammering1532 double-minded1552 unstaid1561 unresolute1570 unresolved?1571 staggeringa1577 frittle1579 irresolute1579 cheverel1583 off and on1583 halting1585 unsettleda1593 unresolving1599 demurring1607 waving1611 suspensive1614 hoveringa1616 startling1619 irresolved1621 hesitating1622 indetermined1628 variousa1643 branling1645 hesitant1647 non-sincere1656 hesitatious1657 humdrum1660 shuttlecock1660 yea-and-nay1672 swaying1688 interpendent1708 undetermined1718 Squadronec1720 hesitatorya1734 volanta1734 shilly-shally1734 dilly-dally1749 niffy-naffy1765 wiggle-waggle1778 undecided1779 undecisive1780 indecisive1787 conflicted1789 hesitative1795 undeciding1802 vacillating1814 yea-nay1827 demurrant1836 willy-nilly1839 shilly-shallying1842 oscillative1852 Hamletish1854 vacillatory1854 dilly-dallying1879 thistledown1897 weak-principled1913 not-quite1920 off-again on-again1923 dithery1931 havering1975 1854 ‘G. Greenwood’ Haps & Mishaps iii. 53 Herr Devrient is a handsome, Hamlet-ish man, with a melancholy refinement of voice. 1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Sept. 711/2 Adams's madness is, indeed, a trifle Hamletish. 1952 A. R. D. Fairburn Strange Rendezvous 25 He has played the gravedigger to many a Hamletish posture of my soul. ˈHamletism n. an attitude resembling that of Hamlet. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [noun] yea-and-nayc1384 vacillationc1400 titteringa1413 stackeringc1440 wondingc1440 fluctuationc1450 waver1519 mammering1532 uncertainty1548 wavering1548 to and fro1553 suspense1560 staggering1565 suspension1568 mammery1578 demur1581 branle1591 dilly-dally1592 hesitance1601 irresolution1601 uncertainness1601 undecision1611 waveringness1614 hesitancy1617 unsettledness1619 hesitation1622 unresolvednessa1626 doubleness of minda1628 wavinga1628 swagging1636 poise1637 mambling1640 stickagea1647 vacillancy1668 whifflinga1677 hovering1679 unresolve1679 irresoluteness1686 shilly-shally1755 indecisiona1763 undecisiveness1779 indecisiveness1793 oscillation1798 flexility1815 shilly-shallying1842 swaying1850 Hamletism1852 teeter1855 havering1866 off and on1875 dilly-dallying1879 double-mindedness1881 hesitatingness1890 dither1958 1852 H. Melville Pierre vii. vi. 191 In this plaintive fable we find embodied the Hamletism of the antique world. 1905 Daily Chron. 11 Apr. 4/7 Let us forget Hamletism and all its ills. 1945 W. Fowlie in Mod. Reading XII. 210 He is the one contemporary writer who has driven out from his nature all traces of hamletism, and yet he writes constantly about Hamlet. ˈHamletize v. rare to soliloquize or meditate after the manner of Hamlet. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > contemplation of self > reflect on oneself [verb] bethinkc1000 rememberc1405 to descend into (also within) oneself1539 finger1546 reflect1595 recollect1640 introvert1671 Hamletize1844 introspect1884 the mind > language > speech > monologue > talk in monologue [verb (intransitive)] soliloquize1759 to think aloud (also out loud)1789 monologue1825 Hamletize1844 monologuize1870 monologize1890 1844 G. C. Hebbe & J. MacKay tr. ‘C. Sealsfield’ Life in New World 267 Halloo! Mr. Howard! Hamletizing? 1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xiv. 205 One shouldn't talk when one is tired and wretched.—One Hamletises, and it seems a lie. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Stud. Classic Amer. Lit. ix. 180 So Dana sits and Hamletizes by the Pacific—chief actor in the play of his own existence. Draft additions 1993 2. Used allusively, esp. to denote a troubled, indecisive, or capricious person. Also transferred and attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > capricious persons or animals > capricious or whimsical person butterflya1500 wild-brain1580 wild-head1583 humorista1586 wild goose1597 barmy-froth1598 whirligig1602 maggot-monger1607 maggot-patea1640 kickshaw1644 whimsy-pate1654 maggot1681 volatilityship1771 whimship1793 vagarist1888 Jack-o'-wisp1896 Hamlet1903 temperamentalist1924 1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman Pref. p. xxix Dickens, without the excuse of having to manufacture motives for Hamlets and Macbeths, superfluously punts his crew down the stream of his monthly parts. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 180 Khaki Hamlets don't hesitate to shoot. The bloodboltered shambles in act five is a forecast of the concentration camp. 1941 J. Maynard Russia in Flux v. 117 One type [of social missionary] is of the Don Quixote type... Another is of the Hamlet type, a bastard aristocrat, introspective and poetical, is merely ineffectual, and dies by suicide. 1952 E. O'Neill Moon for Misbegotten iv. 170 Suddenly, for no reason, all the fun went out of it, and I was more melancholy than ten Hamlets. 1984 N.Y. Times 26 Oct. a12/5 We cannot allow ourselves to become the Hamlet of nations, worrying endlessly over whether and how to respond. 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