-verse

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the…

   Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element.

   • 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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Forming compound nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television…

   Forming compound nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc.

   • Women's lib in the BSGverse.
   • This is Uhura's – and Uhura's fans' – big moment, the moment in which she blazingly comes alive as a member of the Trekverse.
3. 3

   Forming compound nouns denoting an alternative universe.

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