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Xenaverse en · PROPN

Etymology

From Xena + -verse.

Meanings

1. (slang) The fictional universe depicted in the Xena: Warrior Princess series.
   • The show is an amazing foray into women's expressions of rage — there's a lot of other women in the Xenaverse with a penchant for feats of arms […] 2005, "Doris", quoted in Sue Austin, Women's Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self-hatred, Love and Agency, page 22
   • Guess things are different in the Xenaverse. Maybe Ares and the other gods don't like competition? 1998, Greg Cox, Battle On!: An Unauthorized, Irreverent Look at Xena: Warrior Princess, page 88:
   • Gender was not relevant in the Xenaverse. There, a girl or a boy could be a warlord or a farmer, a bard or a sad sack needing protection. 2013 September 9, Jennifer Sky, “My Life as a Warrior Princess”, in The New York Times:
2. (slang) The fandom of Xena: Warrior Princess.
   • The task of mapping the online Xenaverse is, of course, an impossible one. The Xenaverse is too expansive, too unstructured, too fluid and fast moving to be charted; […] 2003, Sara Gwellian-Jones, “Histories, Fictions and Xena: Warrior Princess”, in Will Brooker, Deborah Jermyn, editors, The Audience Studies Reader, page 188:
   • Many wonderful people and events have come into our lives from being part of the Xenaverse. 2002, Jo Marriott, Carly Bramwell, “Maid Marion, Meet Xena”, in Nikki Stafford, editor, How Xena Changed Our Lives: True Stories by Fans for Fans, page 72:
   • For instance, when I lived in Italy a couple of years ago, I stumbled across the Italian Xenaverse. 2005, Anik LaChev, "Fan Fiction: A Genre And Its (Final?) Frontiers", Spectator, Volume 25, Number 1, Spring 2005, page 91

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Hercverse