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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society;
[syn: harakiri, hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Seppuku \Sep*pu"ku\, n. Same as Hara-kiri. [1913 Webster] Seppuku, or hara-kiri, also came into vogue. --W. E. Griffis. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

seppuku n 1: ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society [syn: harakiri, hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku]