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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

-verse en · X

Pronunciation

  • /vɚs/ (US)
  • /vəːs/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Italic *oinos Old Latin oinos Latin ūnus Proto-Indo-European *wert- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *wr̥ttós Proto-Italic *worssosder. Latin vorsus Latin versus Latin ūniversusder. Old French universbor. Middle English universe English universebf. English -verse Extracted from universe.

Meanings

  1. (morpheme) Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element.
    • The “Twitterverse” was alive with eyewitness accounts, but CNN was silent about the disputed election and those coming out to support the Iranian presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi. 2010, Yahya Kamalipour, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age:
    • Quite simply, a feed reader lets you stay up to date with all your friends in the blogiverse, without forcing you to surf back to every blog 94 times a day to check if anything's new. 2006, Matthew MacDonald, Creating Web Sites: the Missing Manual:
  2. (morpheme) Forming compound nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc.
    • Women's lib in the BSGverse. 2008, Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, Hillary Robson, Finding Battlestar Galactica, page 150:
    • This is Uhura's – and Uhura's fans' – big moment, the moment in which she blazingly comes alive as a member of the Trekverse. 2009, David Greven, Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek, page 216:
  3. (morpheme, slang) Forming compound nouns denoting an alternative universe.