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HAIKU
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Dictionary entry overview: What does haiku mean?
• HAIKU (noun)
The noun HAIKU has 1 sense:
1. an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
Familiarity information: HAIKU used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("haiku" is a kind of...):
poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)
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