hamelin

1. 1.

   a town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper

   SynonymsHameln

   Broadertown

   Part ofGermany

Other forms of hamelin

plural

hamelins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hamelin

What does hamelin mean?

hamelin means "a town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper".

How many syllables are in hamelin?

hamelin has 3 syllables: ham-e-lin. The stress falls on "ham". In IPA it is /ˈhæməlɪn/.

What is another word for hamelin?

Close synonyms include Hameln. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hamelin a common word?

hamelin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.