A hamlet is a very small village. the main character in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, which is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark, and is a serious, unhappy young man who is unable to decide how he feels or what he should do. Ophelia. a very small village (hamelet, from ham )
A daft person (Icelandic, amlod'), one who is irresolute, and can do nothing fully Shakespeare's play is based on the Danish story of Amleth' recorded in Saxo-Grammaticus
a community of people smaller than a village the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father