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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

underverse en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈʌndə(ɹ)vɜː(ɹ)s/

Etymology

From under- + verse.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) The following or second verse.
    • Perigot maketh all hys song in prayse of his love, to whom Willy answereth every underverse. 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:

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underverse en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈʌndə(ɹ)vɜː(ɹ)s/

Etymology

From under- + -verse.

Meanings

  1. An alternate universe located in some sense underneath the real one.
    • With this insight they are able to understand this universe and the underverse. In the underverse, space and time are different due to the change in mass due to the feild generated to protect from the foreign opposite universe. 2014, Eric Thompson, The Slave, The Sword and the Stars, page 237:

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