Usually means: Traditional Japanese three-line poem.
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  1. haiku: Merriam-Webster
  2. haiku: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. haiku: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. haiku: Collins English Dictionary
  5. haiku: Vocabulary.com
  6. Haiku, haiku: Wordnik
  7. haiku: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. haiku: Wiktionary
  9. haiku: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. haiku: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. haiku: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. haiku: Dictionary.com
  13. haiku: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Haiku (Don Ellis album), Haiku (disambiguation), Haiku (operating system), Haiku: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. haiku: Rhymezone
  16. haiku: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. haiku: FreeDictionary.org
  18. haiku: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. haiku: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. haiku: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HAIKU: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. haiku: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. haiku, haiku: A Word A Day

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
noun:  A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.

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