-verse
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /vÉ™Ës/
- US IPA: /vÉšs/
Origin
From universe.
Full definition of -verse
Suffix
- 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, p. 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.