Hamlet.
A William Shakespeare play about the Danish royal family.
Meaning & usage
A William Shakespeare play about the Danish royal family.
The eponymous main character of William Shakespeare's play, whose father's ghost, murdered by Hamlet's uncle, exhorts him to seek revenge.
A male given name.
A surname.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Marin County, California.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States: A town in Starke County, Indiana, named after John Hamlet.
A number of places in the United States: A village in Hayes County, Nebraska, so-named as it was regarded as a hamlet.
A number of places in the United States: A hamlet in Chautauqua County, New York.
A number of places in the United States: A city in Richmond County, North Carolina.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon, regarded as a hamlet.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, so-named for its small size.
A locality in Alberta, Canada, named after William Hamlet.
A settlement in Gittisham parish, East Devon district, Devon, England, just outside Honiton (OS grid ref SY1499).
A hamlet in Yetminster parish and Chetnole parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST5908).
Where this word comes from
From Latin Amlethus, as written by 13th-century Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, and borrowed into English by way of François de Belleforest's French Hamlet, originally rendered as Hamblet in English. Ultimately from Old Danish Amlethæ, corresponding to Old Norse Amlóði (“fool”), claimed to be suggestive of the way that Hamlet acts in the play, from ama (“to annoy”).
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