Definitions for Hamlet

Hamlet ham·let

Spelling: [ham-lit]
IPA: /ˈhæm lɪt/

Hamlet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in Hamlet (aehlmt).

Definitions for Hamlet

noun

  1. a small village.
  2. British. a village without a church of its own, belonging to the parish of another village or town.
  3. any of various sea basses of the family Serranidae, found in the warm waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, especially the Nassau grouper.
  4. (italics) a tragedy (first printed 1603) by Shakespeare.
  5. the hero of this play, a young prince who avenges the murder of his father.

Origin of Hamlet

1300-50; Middle English hamelet Middle French, equivalent to hamel (diminutive of ham Germanic; see home) + -et -et

Examples for Hamlet

For Shakespeare must have painted this second hamlet unconsciously.

Kate Winslet delivered a haunting performance as Ophelia in the 1996 hamlet.

Like hamlet with the king at the play, "If he but blench, I know my course!"

If he were more of a "candle-holder" and onlooker, he would more resemble hamlet.

Jaques is only sketched in with light strokes, but all his traits are peculiarly hamlet's traits.

Evidently the time for classifying the creator of hamlet is at hand.

Hitchcock decided to abandon his adaptation of hamlet to avoid any legal kerfuffle.

The same thing happens when her mute daughter, the sweet Kattrin, is shot as she tries to warn a hamlet of impending slaughter.

hamlet refused to accept that heroism was his destiny, because of the behavior it required.

This 1964 performance was a stage production of hamlet, but filmed in front of a live audience.

Word Value for Hamlet
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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