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haiku
OXFORD DICTIONARY
haiku, n. (pl. same)
1 a Japanese three-part poem of usu. 17 syllables.
2 an English imitation of this.
1 a Japanese three-part poem of usu. 17 syllables.
2 an English imitation of this.
Etymology
Jap.
THESAURUS
haiku
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, idyll, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelayFor further exploring for "haiku" in Webster Dictionary Online