From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhaikuhai‧ku /ˈhaɪkuː/ noun (plural haiku or haikus) [countable] ALa type of Japanese poem with three lines consisting of five, seven, and five syllables
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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” 