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elseworld

noun

Etymology

From else + world. From being a world that is elsewhere from the regular world. Genericization of the trademark ElseWorlds, created by DC Comics.

  1. inherited from *weraldiz✻ — “lifetime, human existence, world”
  2. inherited from *weraldi✻
  3. inherited from weorold — “world”
  4. inherited from world
  5. compounded as elseworld — “else + world”

Definitions

  1. A fictional setting that is a modification of the common multi-author shared-world…

    A fictional setting that is a modification of the common multi-author shared-world setting used in standard stories. A parallel dimension alternate universe setting.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for elseworld. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA