haiku
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 5
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Definition of haiku
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.
“Some of the results resemble haikus.”
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noun
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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.
“Some of the results resemble haikus.”
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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.
“Haiku, a poem”
“five beats, then seven, then five”
“ends as it began.”
name
- A village in the census-designated place of Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii, United States.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku), from Middle Chinese 俳 (beaj, “paralleled [writing]”) + 句 (kɨoᴴ, “line”).
Words you can make from haiku
12 playable · top: HAIK (11 pts)
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