haiku

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hai·ku /ˈhaɪkuː/ noun (plural haiku or haikus) [countable]  ALa type of Japanese poem with three lines consisting of five, seven, and five syllables 俳句〔一种日本诗体〕

Examples from the Corpus

haiku• Below are a few haiku written by students in a writing class.• How far, for instance, do Middle-March and an imagist haiku resemble each other?• Conversation hearts have their own form of haiku.• It was as if he had conceived a latterday, visual version of the sonnet or the haiku.• And what country originated the haiku?• The haiku was one which ended with a downward cut, followed by a single outward thrust.Origin haiku (1800-1900) Japanese haikai no ku “not serious poem”

hai·ku nounChineseSyllable  

a of poem with lines Corpus three type Japanese

haiku
hai‧ku /ˈhaɪkuː/ noun (plural haiku or haikus) [countable]a type of Japanese poem with three lines consisting of five, seven, and five syllables
     

THESAURUS

■ a poem
   ▪ poem a piece of writing that expresses emotions, experiences, and ideas, especially in short lines using words that rhyme: ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ is the first line of a famous poem by WIlliam Wordsworth.
   ▪ sonnet a poem with 14 lines which rhyme with each other in a fixed pattern: Shakespeare’s sonnets
   ▪ haiku a type of Japanese poem with three lines consisting of five, seven, and five syllables: a haiku by Matsuo Basho about a frog jumping into a pond
   ▪ limerick a short humorous poem that has five lines which rhyme: a limerick by Edward Lear, which began ‘There was a young lady of Norway, Who casually sat in a doorway’.
   ▪ rhyme a short poem or song, especially for children, using words that rhyme: a collection of traditional rhymes with illustrations | The children were reciting a rhyme. | a nursery rhyme (=a short traditional poem or song for children)

haikuBrE /ˈhaɪkuː/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhaɪkuː/ 🔊 noun (

plural

haiku or

haikus) (from Japanese) a poem with three lines and usually 17 syllables, written in a style that is traditional in Japan 俳句（日本传统诗体，三行为一首，通常有 17 个音节）