-verse
English
Etymology
From Latin versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō (“to turn”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /vəːs/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /vɚs/
Suffix
-verse
- Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element. [from 20th c.]
- 2006, Matthew MacDonald, Creating Web Sites: the Missing Manual:
- 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.
- 2010, Yahya Kamalipour, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age:
- 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.
- Forming compounds nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc. [from 20th c.]
- 2008, Lynnette Porter, David Lavery & Hillary Robson, Finding Battlestar Galactica, p. 150:
- Women's lib in the BSGverse.
- 2009, David Greven, Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek, page 216:
- This is Uhura's – and Uhura's fans' – big moment, the moment in which she blazingly comes alive as a member of the Trekverse.
- 2008, Lynnette Porter, David Lavery & Hillary Robson, Finding Battlestar Galactica, p. 150: