Usually means: Traditional French narrative or lyric poem.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word lai:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lai, lai: Merriam-Webster
  2. Lai, l'ai, lai, lai: Wordnik
  3. Lai, lai: Wiktionary
  4. lai: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. lai: Dictionary.com
  6. Lai (Chinese surname), Lai (disambiguation), Lai (poetic form), Lai (state), Lai (surname), Lai: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Lai: Rhymezone

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  3. LAI: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LAI: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. LAI: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  2. LAI: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lai: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (LAI)

▸ noun:  (historical) A mostly North European medieval form of lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance, with stanzas that do not repeat.
▸ noun:  A Tibeto-Burman language of India and Burma.
▸ noun:  A surname from Chinese.
▸ noun:  A surname from Chinese.
▸ noun:  Initialism of leaf area index.

Similar:
ballad, lyric, lyre, lyrick, lyrist, leonine, stornello, lyrism, pastorela, lyricism, more...

Opposite:
truth, veracity, honesty

Phrases:
my lai, Gia Lai, mai lai, peng lai, chou en lai, more...

Adjectives:
late, high, chinese, total, teb, low, yan, kong, lieh, former, maximum

Colors:
    lavender,     lilac,     lemon,     lime,     lichen, more...



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Similar:
ballad, lyric, lyre, lyrick, lyrist, leonine, stornello, lyrism, pastorela, lyricism, more...

Opposite:
truth, veracity, honesty

Phrases:
my lai, Gia Lai, mai lai, peng lai, chou en lai, zhou en lai, my lai massacre, lai ty, mi lai, my lai (massacre), my lai incident, my lai tragedy, Leon Lai, Lai Ching-te, Francis Lai, Lai Kuan-lin, Jimmy Lai, more...

Adjectives:
late, high, chinese, total, teb, low, yan, kong, lieh, former, maximum

Colors:
    lavender,     lilac,     lemon,     lime,     lichen, more...



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